Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:06:47 +0000 From: "Kam Salisbury" <netalchemist@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ATA RAID hardware reccomendation? Message-ID: <F14n6HIr6dZqN3Ssxoq000157e7@hotmail.com>
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Though I think vinum is about the best way to implement mirroring two disks under FreeBSD, I have since seen that I really should be investigating hardware based raid possibilities. I really need to consider how great it would be to have boot capability from the mirror (RAID1). What I really would like is something that is OS independant. I have read some of the information available at 3ware, Adaptec and Arcoide. The Arco card is only ATA66, has no cache RAM but is 100% OS independant. The Adaptec 2400A is the only model that will work with FreeBSD based on information from their site -- that information is suspect since it does not specifically list whether drivers are necessary for xBSD as they are for Linux. The 3ware 6000 series two port ATA RAID (listed in BSD Mall at a steal price $144) site information states "A key portion of 3ware's technology is in the implementation of OS device drivers. 3ware's target operating environments are Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux open-source, as well as support for popular Linux distributions such as Red Hat, SuSE and Turbolinux. Although the 3ware Escalade Storage Switch attaches to a cluster of ATA disk drives, it is installed with a SCSI mini-port driver, enabling the switch to appear as a large SCSI disk drive to the outside world. This means that from the operating system’s point-of-view, the 3ware Escalade Storage Switch is a SCSI device. " Of course it is listed as being Intel hardware platform compatible. I looked at the Promise site but could not really get to any hard information that said it in fact is OS independant. Does anyone know (for sure because you have tried and or are using it) of an ATA RAID 0/1 solution that is OS independant other than Arco? Kam Salisbury Network Alchemist http://www.salsolutions.net/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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