From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 13:27:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B4237B6F0 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 13:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23733; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:32:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <392EDE2E.A47A17DE@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:27:26 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grandpa Walrus Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID and FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Grandpa Walrus wrote: > > I stumbled across a controller card that can support hot-swappable IDE > drives (the card is from a company called Promise Technologies) > > URL for what I saw is http://www.365usa.com/promisetech.asp > > Have any of you ever used this product with FreeBSD successfully? If not, > do you know of a good vendor for IDE hot-swap RAID controller cards > and drive mounts? > > Any info, as always, would be greatly appreciated. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message We looked at using those same cards. BTW, the site is http://www.promise.com/. The hot-swap does work, however the RAID function(s) of the card are software based, and thus unsupported by FreeBSD's drivers. You can utilize the controller(s) for hot-swap IDE, but for the RAID portion of it you'll probably have to use a software based solution, (ie Vinum). I'd reccomend looking at the 3ware, (http://www.3ware.com/), ATA Raid cards if IDE RAID is something you're really interested in doing. Right now I'm working on a server that requires redundant hot-swappable storage as well, but I opted to go with a Mylex controller, and SCSI UW disks instead of ATA. (I have an eight-port 3Ware ATA 66 RAID controller I'm toying with right now, but it does not support hot-swapping drives.) -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message