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Date:      Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:34:17 -0400
From:      Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
To:        Irvine Short <irvine@sanbi.ac.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE RAID controllers
Message-ID:  <86n0cj1oba.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031001164314.Q40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za> (Irvine Short's message of "Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:50:52 %2B0200 (SAST)")
References:  <20031001164314.Q40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za>

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Irvine Short <irvine@sanbi.ac.za> writes:

> They recommend the LSI MegaRAID i4 - see
> http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/i4.html

I got a DELL 600SC "server" a while back, not expensive, came with a
DELL "CERC"-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI
controller card.  I've been running them as a couple RAID-5 volumes
under FreeBSD-5.x.  Do a search on the lists for CERC and you should
find my other postings on this.

I had some problems with drives failing but it appears it was an early
run of flakey WD1200JB 120GB drives, not the controller.

I haven't tried hot swapping or other stuff, but that's not why I
bought it.



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