From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Aug 20 21:46:40 2001 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 1B72337B409 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:46:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7L4kUH25504 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:46:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3ware stuff not ready for heavy duty useage-followup Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:46:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <3B813DD5.A86E2016@ieee.org> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 On 20 Aug 2001 14:15:05 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you = wrote: > > I have a 3ware raid a well that so far has been A-ok. However it is = not >loaded much. The arrays so far have seemed ok, until loaded like a very = busy >server with lots of IO.=20 > SO far out of 4 servers attempted with the 3ware card.. not one has = survived. >Only my personal one which is obviosly less loaded. I use a 4 port cards on my news server. 20Mb/s Usenet feed from Cidera coming in 24hrs a day and 2Mb/s going out for readers plus night time expires on DNEWS. I would call this fairly busy server in terms of IO. = No problems ever. The IDE drives are almost a year old and dont have = errors. The 4 drives are in 2 RAID 0 sets. > > As I said before, I don't think it is a driver issue, or a FreeBSD = issue, but >more a, can IDE's take the abuse and how well can 3ware deal with the = myriad of >error reporing they told me is a problem with IDE drives. > I have heard they wil soon have a way to remap around bad sectors on = the fly, >This would prevent them from having to drop the disk in the event of = error >reporting hopefully. Even with "cheap" IDE drives, I dont think you are going to see failures = on a weekly basis. This is rather odd. Like I said, I have been pounding the snot out of 4 of them in my news server as well as 2 13 gig drives on a busy squid box. I also have a 4 port RAID 10 box on a fairly busy Win2K box running MS SQL 7.=20 Perhaps its the 8 port card ? I have not used any of those. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 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