From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 07:38:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF801065672 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from mail.dannysplace.net (mail.dannysplace.net [80.69.71.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945938FC0A for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nas.lan ([203.206.171.212] helo=[192.168.10.10]) by mail.dannysplace.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1NJ04g-000Aop-8E; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:38:02 +1000 Message-ID: <4B21F6D2.8080101@dannysplace.net> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:37:54 +1000 From: Danny Carroll User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephane LAPIE References: <4B21A8EF.8000304@darkbsd.org> <4B21D5FE.6050309@dannysplace.net> <4B21EA43.10808@darkbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4B21EA43.10808@darkbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: danny X-Authenticator: plain X-Sender-Verify: SUCCEEDED (sender exists & accepts mail) X-Exim-Version: 4.69 (build at 13-Aug-2009 20:22:24) X-Date: 2009-12-11 17:38:02 X-Connected-IP: 203.206.171.212:59265 X-Message-Linecount: 31 X-Body-Linecount: 17 X-Message-Size: 1349 X-Body-Size: 704 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.206.171.212 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: stephane.lapie@darkbsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fbsd@dannysplace.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ferrari.dannysplace.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=8.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.dannysplace.net) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4x and ARC-1300ix-16x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd@dannysplace.net List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:38:03 -0000 On 11/12/2009 4:44 PM, Stephane LAPIE wrote: > By the way, would anyone happen to know if you can use the DELL PERC/6i > controller in JBOD ? I have checked the documentation and every setting > you can think of but it seems you can only access drives as a virtual > disk (and thus, RAID). I can't speak about the Perc cards. But if you can create volumes containing a single disk, and export those to the OS then that is IMHO a better way to go since you are able to take advantage of cache and (if you have it) a battery backup. A lot of raid cards allow you to do this. Some do not. The next best thing is creating mirror volumes that can be exported to the OS. Costly but quite redundant. -D