Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:14:39 -0500 From: "Joe White" <joe@edgehosting.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: IDE RAID Message-ID: <002001c193eb$a60ef400$0a800a0a@edgehosting.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I'm looking into purchasing an IDE RAID controller card and i'm not too sure what to get. I'm currently trying an IWill Side-Raid 66, and i think it's crap. Bootup takes over 2 minutes, just to detect a drive, and the main problem i'm having is this. When i unplug one of the drives (PC OFF), i would assume that the PC would still boot up, considering this is a Mirrored RAID. Am i right in assuming this? When i unplug one drive, nothing happens, it just sits there at the F1/F2 boot loader screen, and if i unplug the other drive, it says it's unable to find/mount the drive. unfortunately, we don't have a lot of funds, so finding a... shall we say, cheaper, card would be ideal. Anywhere under $200. Also, if i started to have problems w/ one of these HDs, would i get messages in my syslog about problems w/ a drive from the RAID driver? I'm concerned about this, as this will be a server co-located about 3 hours away, and i'd kind of like to keep my driving time down this year. :) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Regards Joe White Joe@EdgeHosting.com 248.561.2827 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4912.300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm looking into purchasing an IDE RAID controller card and i'm not too sure what to get. I'm currently trying an IWill Side-Raid 66, and i think it's crap. Bootup takes over 2 minutes, just to detect a drive, and the main problem i'm having is this. When i unplug one of the drives (PC OFF), i would assume that the PC would still boot up, considering this is a Mirrored RAID. Am i right in assuming this? When i unplug one drive, nothing happens, it just sits there at the F1/F2 boot loader screen, and if i unplug the other drive, it says it's unable to find/mount the drive. unfortunately, we don't have a lot of funds, so finding a... shall we say, cheaper, card would be ideal. Anywhere under $200. Also, if i started to have problems w/ one of these HDs, would i get messages in my syslog about problems w/ a drive from the RAID driver? I'm concerned about this, as this will be a server co-located about 3 hours away, and i'd kind of like to keep my driving time down this year. :) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe White</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="mailto:Joe@EdgeHosting.com">Joe@EdgeHosting.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>248.561.2827</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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