From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 23 7:34:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.quansoo.com (defiant.quansoo.com [63.66.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9AA737B78D; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) Received: from localhost (cgriffiths@localhost) by defiant.quansoo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01032; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:33:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: defiant.quansoo.com: cgriffiths owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:33:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Griffiths" To: Per Moeller Cc: FreeBSD Questions List , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Raid controllers In-Reply-To: <38DA319C.4AC963CC@stripe.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Might I suggest the Compaq 3200 Array Controller. I saw someone on these lists was using it in an IBM Server a few weeks back. I have several of these working here and they are wonderful. Chris On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Per Moeller wrote: > It seems to me that the only usable raid controller for FreeBSD is the DPT series, and thoose who are supported are totally > outdated. > > As we are only using IBM Netfinity 5500 servers, and their serveRAID controller are not supported, as it is in Linux. However > fitting the servers with another controller is not a problem, and we would WERY much like to use FreeBSD because of the > reliability and performance. > > So, is it totally impossible to get a fast hardware RAID controller (running RAID-5) for FreeBSD??? > > Do I really have to use an OS that I don't trust to run our services??? > > HELP! > > // Per Moller / System Administrator / VestNet Denmark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message