From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 3 15:42:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA97537B40B for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (lxpx336.lx.ehu.es [158.227.26.236]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f83MgSL16299; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:42:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f83MZD900808; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:35:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jose) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:35:13 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: RAID5 Message-ID: <20010904003513.A313@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A908F812@chat.dagupan.com> <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:25:59PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:25:59PM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 francisv@dagupan.com wrote: > > > Speaking of RAID, what RAID card that supports IDE would you recommend for > > FreeBSD? Can it boot from the RAID device or do you need a separate boot > > disk for that? > > AFAIK, there are no IDE RAID cards that support RAID-5. You are > stuck with RAID 0, 1 or 10. Although these are just fine for what > they are, they don't do what RAID-5 does. RAID-10 is an acceptable > substitute for RAID-5 if you have the money for the spare spindles. > I am now using a 3ware Escalade 7410 with four IDE disks (IBM 75 GB) on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE. It just works (twe(4) driver) and performs quite well. There are also 2- and 8-disks models available. JMA -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message