From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 14:17:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9975F37B437 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@futuresouth.com) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f7NLHcm85020; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:17:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:17:38 -0500 From: Tim To: Kory Hamzeh Cc: Aaron , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID Controller Message-ID: <20010823161738.B84581@futuresouth.com> References: <200108231845.f7NIjtUM001102@ns1.avatar.com> <003c01c12c0b$1cf58780$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003c01c12c0b$1cf58780$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:37:58PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:37:58PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > After talking to their tech support this morning, I think I'm not going to > use this controller mostly because it looks like a SCSI controller to the > system, even though the drives are IDE. This means that the system won't > boot since the filesystem names will be different. If I hadn't installed > FBSD yet, I would definitely use 3ware. This is a production server and I > can't afford to have it down for more than a couple of hours to get things > running. Huh? Why won't it boot? > I may go ahead with the ARCO. It is a total transparent RAID controller that > sits in between your IDE controller and the drive. The only down side to it > is that it does not provide any performance improvements like the other two > controllers do. The last time I looked, ARCO requires a floppy/DOS program to rebuild failed drives. That will significantly add to your down time. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message