Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:39:18 +1100 From: Geoffrey Giesemann <geoffwa@cs.rmit.edu.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? Message-ID: <20070208233918.GA24428@cs.rmit.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0702081621280.28160@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu> <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> <20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan> <200702081902.l18J24Dm055927@lava.sentex.ca> <20070208195410.GA38036@icarus.home.lan> <Pine.OSX.4.64.0702081621280.28160@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:34:57PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > -They added a moving part (2-wire fan, no tach) to a "mission-critical" > part. That seems real stupid. After the bearings die in 2-3 years, what > happens to your card? Does it melt or just start acting weird? If the > engineers didn't consider that, what other failure modes did their limited > creativity miss? :) > The fan does have a tachometer which you can monitor from the card BIOS or using the cli binary. You can also disable the tachometer so you can swap the heatsink+fan for the larger heatsink (w/o fan) that comes in the box. You can find all of this out by *gasp* reading the manual. --Geoff
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070208233918.GA24428>