udma raid cards like the highpoint series are very cheap on ebay because
so many people think sata is better that they are dumping them. At the
same
time the drive manufacturers are dumping udma drives because they are
thinking the same thing.
TLast month for example I just put 2 mirrored 160GB
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:57 PM
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Subject: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards
I'm looking to setup a 4 drive SATA RAID 5 file server for
mp3, avi, and
other media using 6.0-RELEASE
Gayn Winters mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Loiterman Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:57 PM
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Subject: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards
I'm looking to setup a 4 drive SATA RAID 5 file server for mp3
From: Mike Loiterman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards
Gayn Winters mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Feb 4, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Mike Loiterman wrote:
If there aren't any such cards or motherboards, are there
relatively easy
work-arounds using less expensive cards?
I have the LSI MegaRaid SATA-4 150 (or some such name) in a FBSD box
and another in a Solaris 10 box (which I hacked to
I'm looking to setup a 4 drive SATA RAID 5 file server for mp3, avi, and
other media using 6.0-RELEASE.
It appears that the supported SATA RAID cards listed in
/stand/help/HARDWARE.TXT are all over $400.00. That's hard for to justify
for this application, unless there are no other choices
I posted a few weeks back regarding problems making the aw8 board,
work with a 3ware card 7006-2,
the system wouldn't boot at all,
after much discussion with 3ware they said, sorry nothing we can do,
cannot offer an alternative suggested card, so I was about to change the
mother board, infact
Hi, I have a problem, we have been using the 3ware raid cards which mike put
me on to and they
have been great,
however, I have just built a new machine, abit 8w and pentiumD processor,
and all was fine until I put the raid card in, it just hangs with the 3ware
message.
I have raised
On Thu, 2005-Jun-30 17:18:15 -0400, Simon wrote:
It's not only CPU factor, I don't trust software RAID.
I suspect you don't have a choice. Either the RAID is done in the kernel
on your host system or the RAID is done in the the firmware on your RAID
card. In either case, it's software.
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Simon wrote:
Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of support,
doesn't
mean the card itself is bad.
You wouldn't be saying that if you had had one of your RAIDed drives
fail and had no indication whatsoever that it had done so. IMHO, OS
level monitoring of a RAID
On 6/26/05, Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking to build a new file server. I have used
Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any
opinions on RAID cards?
I've had no real trouble with the Highpoint 1540 SATA card
On Jul 1, 2005, at 3:19 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Thu, 2005-Jun-30 17:18:15 -0400, Simon wrote:
It's not only CPU factor, I don't trust software RAID.
I suspect you don't have a choice. Either the RAID is done in the
kernel
on your host system or the RAID is done in the the firmware
(assuming battery-backed
cache).
We pay a lot of money to ensure the lights stay on and sacrifice small animals
to avoid spontaneous reboots.
And finally, hardware raid cards will automatically rebuild onto a hot spare
I know I could do this with Linux software raid, not sure about gmirror
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I am looking to build a new file server. I have used
Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any
opinions on RAID cards?
My 2c: RAID cards suck, because
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I am looking to build a new file server. I have used
Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any
opinions on RAID cards?
My 2c: RAID cards suck, because they are difficult to monitor consistently
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:48:18PM -0400, Simon wrote:
Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of
support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. I much prefer hardware
implementation than software. True hardware RAID frees up a lot of
CPU time if you have heavy IO and
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:48:18PM -0400, Simon wrote:
Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of
support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. I much prefer hardware
implementation than software. True hardware RAID frees up a lot of
CPU time if you have heavy IO and
It's not only CPU factor, I don't trust software RAID. As for monitoring, I can
tell
whether or not a drive is dead via SAFTE chip and all SCSI RAID cards support
SAFTE and a proper SCSI server would have SAFTE support. As for SATA, the
3ware cards have 3dm tool to monitor the array.
-Simon
full stripes, and can hold off doing mirror
writes if there are pending read requests. Also, if your power goes
out or the system spontaneously reboots, you won't have to rebuild
parity or resync the mirrors (assuming battery-backed cache). And
finally, hardware raid cards will automatically
, hardware raid cards will automatically rebuild onto a hot
spare if available and you can swap out the dead drive and swap a new
spare in without having to run a single command.
I am not an expert at all, but I believe the following to be true and
advantages of true HW raid cards. To add
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:38:34PM -0600, Nethaniel St. Donovan wrote:
Option 6 for Freebsd boot up screen is drop to boot commandline.
Okay, that one. My problems started when I went to multi-user
mode, and the RAID logical volume was accessed.
Fail because whatever Linux I try
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:21:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can say my experience with adaptec 3200s cards has not been the most
fruitful. It's been 2 weeks now and I cannot even get my
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I am looking to build a new file server. I have used
Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any
opinions on RAID cards?
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Bob Bomar
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cannot load my driver.
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I am looking to build a new file server. I have used
Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:38:42AM -0500, Bob Bomar wrote:
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at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any
opinions on RAID cards?
I have had great results with the Adaptec 2200s controllers. Just remember to
not enable the aacp device
On 6/26/05, Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I am looking to build a new file server. I have used
Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any
opinions on RAID cards?
I have
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:21:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can say my experience with adaptec 3200s cards has not been the most
fruitful. It's been 2 weeks now and I cannot even get my system to load past
the initial bootup options screen. Anything but option 6 fails. The sad
thing
Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an
Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM
Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives.
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a
Just be careful on what card you choose. Aside from simply making sure
there are drivers for it, you also have to check on the little things.
Like, oh, being able to non-destructively grow the size of the RAID5
array.
I bought a Promise SX6000. I have 3 200GB drives that will be in RAID5.
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
card?
What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring
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Hi there.
I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an
Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM
Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives.
My question is, since that
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
card?
What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for
example, but
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I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great
luck with software mirroring and
I've got a Supermicro P4 Xeon server with an onboard Adaptec SCSI
controller and a 0 channel RAID adapter with one array, plus a 2200S
dual channel RAID controller with a second array.
FreeBSD 4.9 doesn't find any disks on the system at all. Neither the
asr or aac drivers come up during boot.
3ware is the way to go in my experience. They work really well under
FreeBSD, Windows and Linux. The FreeBSD drivers were originally written by
Mike Smith and Paul Saab is now maintaining them. They are not overly
fancy in FreeBSD but they do what they are designed to do. I have used
them
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
3ware is the way to go in my experience. They work really well under
FreeBSD, Windows and Linux. The FreeBSD drivers were originally written by
Mike Smith and Paul Saab is now maintaining them. They are not overly
fancy in FreeBSD but they do
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:42:25 +0200, Mathieu Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi,
I'm in a need of such a card, but I can't find out which cards are only
doing raid under windows with specific drivers, and which cards are doing
real hard raid.
Depends what you want to do with it. My
Mathieu Arnold wrote:
Hi,
I'm in a need of such a card, but I can't find out which cards are only
doing raid under windows with specific drivers, and which cards are doing
real hard raid.
HightPoint RocketRAID 1540 (4 ports SATA) works very well for me and is
not expensive (only ~$150 CAD).
Cache RAID cards. Does anyone have an experience using these
cards with bsd and, actually replacing a disk (raid 5) using the raid
utilis that come with the 4.8 branch of BSD ?
Regards,
--
Matthew Bettinger
System Administrator
Champion Elevators, Inc.
Houston, Texas 77061
713.640.8500
1650. These come with PERC3-DI,128MB Battery
MBBacked Cache RAID cards. Does anyone have an experience using these
MBcards with bsd and, actually replacing a disk (raid 5) using the raid
MButilis that come with the 4.8 branch of BSD ?
Howdie,
We are running 4.8-Stable on 2650's
BSD baby wrote:
If I have 4 PCI slots available on a motherboard,
is there any reason why I couldn't hook up FOUR
3ware IDE RAID cards? (twe driver)
Will FreeBSD (4.8) be able to address them all,
or is there some kind of limit?
FreeBSD should be able to address all of the devices, but most
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