From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 29 9: 7:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-187.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A2137B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eATHFDF30160; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011291715.eATHFDF30160@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Oliver Blasnik" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Again: Promise IDE RAID / Fasttrack100 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:16:50 +0100." <000a01c059f6$94b32850$6560310a@omnilinkw63> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:15:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So, what is the first to check out with an mirrored raid? Take one of > the drives out of the bay and look what happens. I did and looked... > Hum... System stopped... Waiting... System still hangs... Put the drive > back into bay. Nothing happens at all. We don't support "RAID" behaviour on these controllers at all. > Hopefully anyone is going to implement that new drivers into FreeBSD > or fix that problem. No idea. Soren has made some noises about improving this, but I haven't heard anything solid. Personally (biassed opinion here), if you want ATA RAID, get a "real" RAID controller from 3ware. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message