Joseph Kerian wrote:
> Hmm... I have to ask if you (or anyone else) has actually done this.
> I attempted to run two Highpoint cards in the same machine about a
> year ago, and the Highpoint driver became extremely confused. They
> were nowhere near the same card (one was IDE, the other was a 164
On 12/13/05, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply ...
>
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Highpoint RocketRAID 1640(4 ports)
> > Promise FastTrak S150 SX4(4 ports)
> > Promise FastTrak S150 SX4-M(4 ports)
> > Highpoint RocketRAID 1810A
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:51:02 +0100 (CET)
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to do that.
Noted. Good to know. :-)
> Note that the HPT 18x0A have an onboard processor which
> does the XOR (parity) calculations for RAID-5. For the
> non-A version
Sorry for the late reply ...
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Highpoint RocketRAID 1640(4 ports)
> Promise FastTrak S150 SX4(4 ports)
> Promise FastTrak S150 SX4-M(4 ports)
> Highpoint RocketRAID 1810A(4 ports)
> Highpoint RocketRAID 1820A(8 ports)
> Intel R
Stijn Hoop wrote this message on Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:30 +0100:
> Besides, I've seen a few hardware RAID controllers having issues
> themselves (and they weren't the cheapest ones available either).
Yep, and because of failure to get proper vender support, software
raid is looking more attracti
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:04:57PM -0700, secmgr wrote:
> Whatever you do, don't complain about it on this list, or you'll just be
> told that if you really wanted raid, you should be running SCSI disks
> and a raid adapter. They may allow that 3ware does ok, but no ATA drive
> should ever be r
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:04:57PM -0700, secmgr wrote:
> Christian Brueffer wrote:
>
> >>On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the
> >>corner (as a result of a SoC project).
> >>
>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:49:15PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > > I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the
> > > current documentati
> Whatever you do, don't complain about it on this list, or you'll just be
> told that if you really wanted raid, you should be running SCSI disks
Ah, no please complain so that if s/w raid gives you trouble, there will
be something to point to when and if people doubt there are still
problems (
Christian Brueffer wrote:
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the
corner (as a result of a SoC project).
Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple
of days a
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:30:33PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:15:48 +0100
> Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You could use graid3(8) - it has data+parity components like raid5.
>
> What about write performance? Based on RAID3 documentation I have read
> (o
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the
> > current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to
> > risk it.
>
> IMHO
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:15:48 +0100
Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could use graid3(8) - it has data+parity components like raid5.
What about write performance? Based on RAID3 documentation I have read
(on the 'net, so I cannot vouch for the correctness of it), you will get
worse writ
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the
> current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to
> risk it.
IMHO it's pretty stable in 6.0. I've been running gvinum RAID-5 for a
while n
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the
current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to
risk it. So, I'm looking at hardware raid 5 controllers. From this list,
You could use graid3(8) - it has data+parity components l
I need to set up a storage server for my personal use. The current
solution on my little local network is a haphazard collection of old
machines with disks in them, and backups are so-so.
I could just set up a "normal" FreeBSD server, with single disks, and
setup another one for the backup. Howeve
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