From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 12 18:13:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27628 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from runner.jjsoft.com (jahanur.intur.net [206.97.149.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27621 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jahanur@jjsoft.com) Received: from jjsoft.com (lion.jjsoft.com [206.97.159.66]) by runner.jjsoft.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA25554; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:13:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3673236E.80AACE45@jjsoft.com> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:16:14 -0600 From: Jahanur R Subedar Organization: J & J Software Solutions,www.jjsoft.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pat Lynch , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: dell Power Edge 4300 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes thats true I agree with you but company is more worried about hardrive crash then speed. Pat Lynch wrote: > scsi, if you are that worried about RAIDing the drive, then you should be > worried about the reliability of I/O, use SCSI, not IDE. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net > Systems Administrator Rush Networking > > "friends don't let friends root drunk" > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > > > Thank you for your Answer, > > I found out that the raid Scsi card that is in there is Perc 2/sc (Perc 2 > > Single Channel), > > and it is using Simbios Logic Driver and Bios. Its running as Host-Base and it > > can be configured to run on any Level 0, 1, or 5. Anyway what we have decided > > to do is > > we are going to get Dell 2200 (which is almost the same configuration except > > Power > > redundancy and RAID). So what we are going to do is use Scsi-Scsi Ide Raid its > > cost > > effective. > > What do you think should I go with Ide Raid or Scsi Raid. > > Please me what is the draw back on it. > > Thanks. > > jahanur > > > > Pat Lynch wrote: > > > > > as far as I know, the hardware RAID controller that is in the PowerEdge > > > 4300 (an adaptec/dell model) is *not* supported by FreeBSD, at least not > > > yet, I know DPT controllers are supported, and I know someone was working > > > on Mylex drivers. Maybe investing in a RAID controller or a scsi-to-scsi > > > RAID unit? does linux support these controllers? it seemed rather cutting > > > edge (but then linux is usually bleeding edge) > > > > > > -P > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net > > > Systems Administrator Rush Networking > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, jahanur wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > Should we be able to install Freebsd 2.2.7 R on it yet ? > > > > Please answer as soon as possible? > > > > If Raid does not work then can we still use it as separate drives. > > > > And on the Scsi also please let me know as soon as possible. > > > > We still have time to return this server. > > > > If this Server does not work please refer us to some other server > > > > where freebsd will work. We need to use this server as our > > > > Web hosting server. We like freebsd. My boss was telling me that if > > > > freebas does not work then we will have to install Some Linux. Please > > > > let me know what can we do about it. > > > > > > > > Jahanur > > > > jahanur@jjsoft.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message