RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-05-05 Thread Edgar Martinez
) -Original Message- From: Tomas Quintero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brent Wiese; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE I am almost a bit curious why you didn't go with a Microsoft based

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-25 Thread Edgar Martinez
. -Original Message- From: Brent Wiese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE Any one else think they know of a better method?? Well, I'm probably going to get

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-25 Thread Tomas Quintero
explain some of the weirdness that I have been seeing. -Original Message- From: Brent Wiese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE Any one else

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-25 Thread Edgar Martinez
, April 25, 2005 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brent Wiese; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE I am almost a bit curious why you didn't go with a Microsoft based solution in a situation like this, where you are needing to provide SMB based file

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-25 Thread Tomas Quintero
the array, but do not run NFS. -Original Message- From: Tomas Quintero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brent Wiese; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE I am almost a bit

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-22 Thread Benson Wong
No. Doesn't work. Fdisk couldn't figure out how to partition it correctly. Actually it had a very hard time figuring out the correct Cylinder, Heads, Sectors values that worked correctly. I gave up on this. I boot from a 3Ware RAID5 host array (160GB). 2. No. I had 2.2TB arrays and I couldn't

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-22 Thread Benson Wong
Hi Edgar, Good to hear you finally got it running. Sounds like you went through the same challenges I went through. I wound up getting FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE running and it's been stable for weeks. I put it through quite a bit of load lately and it seems to running well. Comments below: As

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-22 Thread Edgar Martinez
: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE Hi Edgar, Good to hear you finally got it running. Sounds like you went through the same challenges I went through. I wound up getting FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE running and it's been stable for weeks. I put it through quite a bit of load lately and it seems

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-22 Thread Edgar Martinez
All, So, after a soild chunk of life has fully been drained from me.here are several conclusions.obviously open for discussion if anyone wants to pick my brain.(yes we reduced our array size.you'll see why) As much loved as BSD is to me.it simply just isn't up to the challenge at all.its