From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 15:49:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A4416A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:49:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from meisai.numachi.com (meisai.numachi.com [198.175.254.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB21543D2D for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:49:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 72368 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2005 15:49:53 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by meisai.numachi.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2005 15:49:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 8469 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Mar 2005 15:49:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:49:53 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: gerald@homes-on-line.com Message-ID: <20050303154953.GU90757@numachi.com> References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> <1bcf5ef9050303011052f49965@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1bcf5ef9050303011052f49965@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i cc: pete wright cc: Artem Kuchin cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:49:55 -0000 On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:10:00AM +0000, Gerald de la Pascua wrote: > we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards, > I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance, > in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a similar price to two > disks to plug into them. When a disk fails you would willingly pay > many times this amount, I've been using a cheapo Promise controller in a RAID 1+0 for years, literally. atapci1@pci0:19:0: class=0x010485 card=0x4d68105a chip=0x6269105a rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' device = 'PDC20271 FastTrak TX2000 EIDE controller' class = mass storage subclass = RAID atapci1: port 0xe800-0xe80f,0xe400-0xe403,0xe000-0xe007,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xd800-0xd807 mem 0xd6000000-0xd600ffff irq 11 at device 1 9.0 on pci0 ar0: 228881MB [29178/255/63] status: READY subdisks: 0 READY ad4: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA1 00 1 READY ad5: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata2-sla ve UDMA100 2 READY ad6: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata3-mas ter UDMA100 3 READY ad7: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata3-sla ve UDMA100 > kind regards, Gerald -- Brian Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large