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From: "Mike Stackhouse" <mike@samsa.com>
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To: <questions@freebsd.org>, "Derek" <derek@durham.net>
Subject: Re: Promise ATA RAID FastTrak100 TX2 Pro  for Freebsd 4.5
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Thanks - we'll try without softupdates.

Interesting comment on no support for hot swap.  Our whole intention for raid-1 is to prevent system downtime in case of drive failure.  From your comment, doesn't sound like FreeBSD supports this?  Would our only alternative be software raid?

Thanks in advance!
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Derek" <derek@durham.net>
Date:  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:22:12 -0400

>
>> Is there something we should do to optimize our configuration?
>
>We have installed the very same product on one of our FreeBSD
>boxen, it was 4.4-STABLE when we ran the install program, and
>every thing went smooth.  I believe this was before softupdates
>was enabled by default.  Perhaps when you are creating your mount
>points you could try disabling softupdates and see if that makes
>a difference.
>
>As a side note (that you might want to know), I don't believe
>that the driver in FreeBSD supports hot swap.  At least any time
>we've had a drive fail, we get a kernel panic, and it's rebuild
>mirror from the card's BIOS.
>
>Regards,
>Derek
>
>
>
>

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