From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 29 9:22:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail-internal.nextra.de (mail.nextra.de [212.169.184.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40C737B699; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from omnilinkw63 (f-euro.fw.nextra.de [212.169.184.9]) by mail-internal.nextra.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA22193; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:22:42 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <014b01c05a29$02cb70e0$6560310a@omnilinkw63> From: "Oliver Blasnik" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <200011291715.eATHFDF30160@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Again: Promise IDE RAID / Fasttrack100 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:22:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Mike, "Mike Smith" wrote: [/me about the FastTrack-Raid-Problems] > > 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. Hum. I'll possibly hack something in (like: if drive is in a mirror and fails, then mark it as failed in config-data and disable it). It's not more than needed. Some Tools for remirroring are real simple. > Personally (biassed opinion here), if you want ATA RAID, get a "real" > RAID controller from 3ware. If there is the possibility to boot up from a (software-)raid and USE it with no additional cost, I do prefer this. The implementation is not a big thing, most of the work is done already. So, why not _finish_ the work? IF I _really_ need a Raid, I use external Arrays (CMD, Infortrend f.ex.). But having such a benefit (mirrored ide, bootable) without high costs in a 1U system is worth using it for higher availability - if the drivers do support it. Thats _my_ personal opinion ;-) Thanks btw, Oliver -- -- http://www.nextra.de - INTERNET@WORK ----- oliver.blasnik@nextra.de -- Nextra Deutschland | Oliver Blasnik Senior System Administrator GmbH & Co KG | Lyoner Strasse 26 D-60528 Frankfurt Region Mitte | tel +49-69-66441-0 fax +49-69-66441-199 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message