From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 14 10:15:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0479C16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from kosh.oneofum.net (mail.oneofum.net [66.11.163.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC5343D1D for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunkel@oneofum.net) Received: by kosh.oneofum.net (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 3DCA4DC8ED; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:12:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from kosh.oneofum.net (kosh.oneofum.net [66.11.163.245]) by kosh.oneofum.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C3727DC8AF for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:12:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from 68.100.34.209 (SquirrelMail authenticated user gunkel) by mail.oneofum.net with HTTP; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:12:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <65007.68.100.34.209.1076782366.squirrel@mail.oneofum.net> In-Reply-To: <20040212171457.GF56315@sentex.net> References: <20040212125320.U40659@ganymede.hub.org><2004212181157.302775@juanjo> <20040212171457.GF56315@sentex.net> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:12:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Alvin Gunkel" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on kosh.oneofum.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-79.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, PRIORITY_NO_NAME,RCVD_IN_SORBS,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Questions about 3Ware 7506 controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:15:10 -0000 I'm running 4.7 Release on a colocated system without access to bios/console. This system currently has a Highpoint RocketRaid 100 controller driving four WD 60gb (WD600JB, 8mb cache) drives in a raid 0+1 config. I had a drive fail and the controller kept the system up and functioning, but something has prevented rebuild from occurring, even in the bios util after replacing the failed drive. As this is a most inconvienent situation I'm considering replacing the raid controller with a 3Ware 7506-4LP controller so I have more control from the OS level. My two questions are: -What driver/firmware should I use? I have a 3Ware 6410 running in another 4.7 system and am able to use the 3DM utils out of ports to monitor it. I don't know if those utils support the 7506. 3Ware has a beta driver and command line utils for the 7506 and FreeBSD 4.8. Which way to go? -Raid 10 or 5? Compared to the 0+1 I have now, 10 would be a nice improvement as loss of the one drive effectively took out two of my drives. Raid 5 would give me an extra 60gb to use, but I don't have any idea what the performance differential would be. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Alvin