From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 18 11:09:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28167 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA28146 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id KAA19690; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA04117; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609181740.KAA04117@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 18 Sep 96 09:50:31 -0600. Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:40:16 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >We are looking to put a RAID array onto a server, and were wondering which >solution would be the best/most cost effective. We have daily incremental >backups, so I doubt the powers that be would be willing to go for a full >blown RAID system--so at this time we are likely looking at a card which >will do a RAID array through the hardware (preferably Level 5). Has >anybody had any experience with this? Any suggestions on which card (and >drives) to get? I'm not exploring the hardware (just fishing for helpful >hints :), but the guy who is mentioned something about an adaptec RAID >card--comments on it? Your best bet for "RAID" right now would be software RAID, using the ccd. Man ccd and man ccdconfig for more info. As far as I know, FreeBSD (and NetBSD) don't currently support any hardware RAID controllers. A final alternative is to get something that does RAID on the drive side, transparently from the SCSI controller (i. e. uses a regular SCSI controller and hides the fact that it's doing RAID). I don't know who makes these, but people have posted about a couple of them in the past, here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------