From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 11:34:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73AE37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from util.inch.com (ns.inch.com [216.223.192.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C0243F85 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:34:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (www.inch.com [216.223.192.20]) h5GIYnX3086660; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:34:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell.inch.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5GIYnSM020165; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:34:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost)h5GIYmvG020162; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:34:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.inch.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:34:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030616134135.046a0e60@209.112.4.2> Message-ID: <20030616143157.R87423@shell.inch.com> References: <87d6hhn707.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> <20030613041037.C89958@shell.inch.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030616134135.046a0e60@209.112.4.2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: state of ide raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:34:52 -0000 On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > The 3ware cards work quite well for this. ~ $120 USD for the 2 port > version. During rebuilds the server is still available and you can control > for the most part how fast or slow the rebuild process works. Its not very > granular, but it does afford some control. I'll second that. I have the 3ware two port model and it seems to have "burped" and decided one of the disks was dead. I went to the management interface (web-only) and removed/added the "bad" drive and then rebuilt the mirror. Performance was fine during the rebuild. Now why the one drive went "bad" is a question I cannot answer... Supposedly the newest firmware supports SMART, but I don't think the FreeBSD driver nor the 3ware web interface do anything with that data. Charles > Its essentially radio buttons that look like > > Faster I/O * * * * * Faster Rebuild > > Give them a try, I think you will like them. > > > ---Mike > > At 01:31 PM 16/06/2003 -0400, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > >We've been messing with some of the IDE RAID controllers without > >a lot of success. All we care about is RAID 1 on a single disk > >(basically to get high availablity on simple servers). > > > >Our tests with Highpoint controllers indicate that the system > >becomes essentially unavailable during rebuild. We'd like to find > >an IDE RAID solution that did not suffer from this problem since > >the only reason we want the RAID is to increase uptime, not reduce > >it. > > > >Almost seems like the right answer would be a device that went > >between the controller and 2 drives to mirror the data. This would > >mean no O/S support (or knowledge) is required. But the only ones > >I've found do not support current high capacity, high speed drives. > > > >/\/\ \/\/ > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >