From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 1 17:38:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0E537B789 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 17:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04605; Mon, 1 May 2000 17:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005020046.RAA04605@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Parag Patel Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 17:16:36 PDT." <98468.957226596@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:46:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 01 May 2000 17:20:57 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: > >> There are other issues to consider when thinking about software RAID-5. The > >> most important of these is the (lack of) non-volatile write-back cache. > >This is definitely a kicker. > > Um - UPS? I ask because power just went out here for a few minutes, and > upsd nicely warned me and started to shutdown (but power came back on). Doesn't help much if you can't get a clean shutdown (think BSOD). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message