Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: John-Michael Wong <jmwong@curee.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UltraTrak Message-ID: <20031003001444.GB20964@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20031002165005.U79192@curee3.eerc.berkeley.edu> References: <20031002165005.U79192@curee3.eerc.berkeley.edu>
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--hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:00:34PM -0700, John-Michael Wong wrote: >=20 > I'm thinking of getting a Promise UltraTrak SX4000 and setting up a RAID-5 > on it. Does anyone have experience with this product, or suggestions for > something similar? The UltraTrak is an external enclosure with a built-in > IDE RAID controller and it interfaces with the host computer using SCSI. > I'm running a 4.8-REL system on an SMP Tyan S2510 motherboard using the > on-board SCSI controller. We've got an RM8000. Performance is unremarkable at around 25MBps. At some point our system developed a problem where the box panics at boot if the array is attached. Shutting of the array during boot is a workaround and we're about out of space on it so I'm not wasting much time trying to find the problem. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fL90XY6L6fI4GtQRApheAJ9/W2u2NZCG3voWcZtZj+WBb5ZG4wCfYZmV V3eeK7sJOR2LWSu2IUcwdXg= =W+GW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50--
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