Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:55:15 +0100 (CET) From: regisr <regisr@pobox.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with large amounts of IDE drives Message-ID: <XFMail.20040127210645.regisr@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <0dc101c3e47a$3f6e6b90$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com>
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On 27-Jan-2004 Elliot Finley wrote: > If you end up switching controllers, you should consider 3ware. I'm > currently running 17 IDE drives in one of my systems. I'm running the first > off the motherboard and the remaining 16 off the 3ware 8-port SATA > controllers. I had an Iwill Side Raid controller 100 (HighPoint chipset). I lost the array configuration. I must make a backup disk to boot. Now I have replaced it by a 3ware Escalade 7506 Raid card 2 IDE channels. Each channel supports only one disk (no slave) but seems to be faster than the Iwill. It is not a SATA controller, IDE only.
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