From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 17:16:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053FA16A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471DD43FE0 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h930EoDH025497; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.9/8.12.3/Submit) id h930EoU6025496; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: John-Michael Wong Message-ID: <20031003001444.GB20964@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20031002165005.U79192@curee3.eerc.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031002165005.U79192@curee3.eerc.berkeley.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UltraTrak X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:16:32 -0000 --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--