Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:11:42 -0400 From: "Mike Stackhouse" <mike@samsa.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Promise ATA RAID FastTrak100 TX2 Pro for Freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: <200208211411.AA36700442@samsa.com>
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We are interested in implementing inexpensive raid mirroring, and arrived at the Promise ATA RAID FastTrak100 TX2 Pro as a choice. From the hardware compatibility list it looks like it is supported, although the manufacturer says there is no support for FreeBSD :-( We are installing on an old system (233mhz) to get the bugs worked out before converting our live systems. It seems that FreeBSD picks up the controller properly as ar0, with ad4 and ad7 subdisks. However, during the installation of FreeBSD, it seems like the copying to disk takes longer than it should, and the installation ultimately hangs up during tunefs operation. We're using two 7500 rpm 20 GB hard drives configured as raid1 (mirroring). Is there something we should do to optimize our configuration? Thanks! Mike Stackhouse SAMSA, Inc. Saginaw, MI USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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