From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 13 7:52:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC02F14EE8 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 07:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01330; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:51:39 +0300 (EET DST) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6DB5BD9; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:51:42 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:51:42 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Jaime Kikpole Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is ServeRAID supported? Message-ID: <19990913175142.A42660@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Jaime Kikpole on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:30:25AM -0400 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:30:25AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > Hi all. I'm thinking about buying a NetFinity 5000 to act as a > file/web/email server. The problem is, with over 200 simultaneous > NetATalk connection expected, I need RAID support. I haven't even used > SCSI on FreeBSD before, let alone RAID! :) So anyway, this should be > interesting. > > Specifically, a salesman who's been quite open to the idea of > running an open source OS suggested the IBM ServeRAID-3L to me. He said > something that suggests that he actually looked through the web site and > found that it was supported under FreeBSD, but I can't find that page. > Can anyone confirm or deny that this card will work (with RAID 5 > abilities) under FreeBSD 3.2? If not, can anyone recommend a good RAID 5 > SCSI controller with a cache? IBM ServeRaid adapters aren't supported :( I think you can go with NF5000 embedded dual-channel UW-SCSI adapter (AIC-7895P) and use vinum for mirroring or striping (or both). Vinum is logical volume manager or so-called software RAID. Anyway, in the case you need more disk performance you can i.e. stripe four disks. Look at vinum(8). -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message