From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 21 5:47:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ihemail1.firewall.lucent.com (ihemail1.lucent.com [192.11.222.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22EC537B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ihemail1.firewall.lucent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ihemail1.firewall.lucent.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA13399 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:47:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cbemh.cb.lucent.com (h135-7-35-160.lucent.com [135.7.35.160]) by ihemail1.firewall.lucent.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA13388 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:47:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cbemh.cb.lucent.com (8.8.8+Sun/EMS-1.5 sol2) id IAA00207; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:47:12 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from lucent.com by cbemh.cb.lucent.com (8.8.8+Sun/EMS-1.5 sol2) id IAA00196; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:47:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39C9FB24.734E7BC8@lucent.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:12:20 -0400 From: "J.D McSwain" Organization: Lucent Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en]C-CCK-MCD EMS-1.4 (Win98; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Rogness Original-CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So which RAID card is available that can be used to mirror the root disk, is supported by FREEBSD and has a decent price? Dale McSwain Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Edward Elhauge [000920 12:48] wrote: > > > Hello Freebsders, > > > > > > I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from > > > NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. > > > > > > I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how > > > to work reliably with them. > > > > "man vinum" > > > > software mirroring == good. > > The question should be, "How much you want to spend?" Depending > on how you answer that question, you could choose either software > or hardware RAID. I've always had better luck with hardware > RAID cards compared to software RAID's. ALthough vinum sounds > like a great package, I have little experience with it...only ccd, > which is why I went with a hardware solution. > > If you got money, get a RAID controller (supported by > FreeBSD). Then you don't have the root limitation that comes with > vinum. > > If you don't have money, use vinum. Either way, use RAID. > > Best of luck. > > Nick Rogness > - Drive defensively. Buy a tank. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message