From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 27 16:26: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gtw.net (mail.gtw.net [208.33.253.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03BAC37B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@day-light.com) Received: (qmail 30380 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 00:26:04 -0000 Received: from 61.pm3.gtw.net (HELO w1) (63.161.82.61) by mail.gtw.net with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 00:26:04 -0000 Reply-To: From: "John Brooks" To: Subject: RE: Good server motherboard? Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:24:09 -0600 Message-ID: <001501c0b71d$76bb60e0$0b00a8c0@dle> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20010327142640.02e18100@207.227.119.2> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message