From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 11:31:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0535016A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF54C43F3F for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 80939 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Oct 2003 18:34:17 -0000 To: Irvine Short References: <20031001164314.Q40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za> From: Chris Shenton Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:34:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20031001164314.Q40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za> (Irvine Short's message of "Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:50:52 +0200 (SAST)") Message-ID: <86n0cj1oba.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:31:29 -0000 Irvine Short 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.