Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64 - and Promise RAID controllers???

2005-01-10 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Last Friday I ranted: In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win situation for both my client and myself. However, somehow I've not yet

Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64 - and Promise RAID controllers???

2005-01-10 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 02:26:34PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, Last Friday I ranted: In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win

Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64

2005-01-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, A client of mine asked me to install their AMD-64 machine as a MySQL database server. Totally against my strong suggestion to use a proper SCSI hardware RAID 10 solution (or at least a hardware SATA RAID solution), they insist on using the internal Sil 3114 software RAID controller in RAID

Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64

2005-01-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:16:35PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, A client of mine asked me to install their AMD-64 machine as a MySQL database server. Totally against my strong suggestion to use a proper SCSI hardware RAID 10 solution (or at least a hardware SATA RAID solution), they

Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64

2005-01-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Erik, Thanks for your answer! I don't think FreeBSD supports the SiI 3114 as a RAID controller, but only as a normal controller. All the RAID stuff for that controller is done in software anyway, but FreeBSD needs to know what format the BIOS uses for a RAID setup, and it doesn't. Indeed that