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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:24:09 -0600
From:      "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com>
To:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Good server motherboard?
Message-ID:  <001501c0b71d$76bb60e0$0b00a8c0@dle>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20010327142640.02e18100@207.227.119.2>

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Has anyone used the raid controller from Arco www.duplidisk.com  It's
supposed to be completely invisible to the OS, so they claim. You get 2
pairs of Raid 1 off of an IDE controller at UDMA66. I ordered one a couple
hours ago to try it out, was just wondering if anyone had any prior
experience with it.

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John Brooks
Email:  john@stlbsd.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey J. Mountin
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: RE: Good server motherboard?


If the lack of boot support in Vinum is an issue that could be solved with
a 2 port 3Ware card and a couple IDE drives.  There are boards with onboard
RAID support, but it is considered crude at this time and not a good
solution for production servers.  Check the -stable archives for more info
on the Promise and HighPoint controllers.

IMO, recovery is easier with Vinum than with hardware RAID and with a hot
swap enclosure no downtime is needed.  Some HW RAID controllers require
booting a DOS disk or the FBSD drivers are not as yet full-featured.  Of
course with Vinum you need to write some kind of script to monitor things,
but that goes with the territory.




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