From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 4 10:33:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8520F37B422 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e84HX9T99170; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:33:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA06248; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:33:08 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: brandon@schoolpeople.net ("Brandon S. DeYoung") Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 17:27:51 GMT Message-ID: <39b3d425.1096049115@mail.sentex.net> References: <200009031931.MAA00828@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <39b34d3e.1061514136@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 4 Sep 2000 09:31:59 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > >Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> Does it work in RAID0 ? I have had problems with RAID1 in FreeBSD, mostly >> incredibly slow performance, but no errors like you are getting. >> >> ---Mike > >I haven't tried RAID 0. The only other configuration I tried was installing >to a single drive (not in an array, but still connected to the 3Ware >controller). That worked just fine which is why I haven't shipped the card >back yet.Yes, doing newfs on a 30 GB partition takes upwards of an hour. Give the RAID 0 a try and see if it makes a difference-- the speed is certainly there anyways. Do you have the latest firmware from them BTW ? If I recall correctly, the updated firmware can be had by downloading the NT drivers. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message