From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 2 16:14:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.edgehosting.com (c870302-c.roalok1.mi.home.com [24.22.74.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DF637B405 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from Beta (omega [10.10.128.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.edgehosting.com (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g030LH8C052528 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:21:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002001c193eb$a60ef400$0a800a0a@edgehosting.com> From: "Joe White" To: Subject: IDE RAID Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:14:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001D_01C193C1.B9C744E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C193C1.B9C744E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C193C1.B9C744E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I'm looking into purchasing an IDE RAID = controller=20 card and i'm not too sure what to get.  I'm currently trying an = IWill=20 Side-Raid 66, and i think it's crap.  Bootup takes over 2 minutes, = just to=20 detect a drive, and the main problem i'm having is this. When i unplug = one of=20 the drives (PC OFF), i would assume that the PC would still boot up, = considering=20 this is a Mirrored RAID. Am i right in assuming this? When i unplug = one=20 drive, nothing happens, it just sits there at the F1/F2 boot loader = screen, and=20 if i unplug the other drive, it says it's unable to find/mount the = drive. =20 unfortunately, we don't have a lot of funds, so finding a... shall we = say,=20 cheaper, card would be ideal.  Anywhere under $200.  Also, if = i=20 started to have problems w/ one of these HDs, would i get messages in my = syslog=20 about problems w/ a drive from the RAID driver?  I'm concerned = about this,=20 as this will be a server co-located about 3 hours away, and i'd kind of = like to=20 keep my driving time down this year. :)  Any suggestions would be = greatly=20 appreciated.  Thanks!
 
Regards
Joe White
Joe@EdgeHosting.com
248.561.2827
 
 
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