From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 1 23:42: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546CC37B424; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 23:42:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA62757; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 02:33:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200009020633.CAA62757@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Mike Smith" , "Steve Kaczkowski" Cc: "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 02:40:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <200009012058.NAA06031@mass.osd.bsdi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 3ware anyone ? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:58:44 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> Wondering if anyone out there is using a 3ware IDE RAID card >> (Specifically the Escalade 6400) in a fault-tolerant setup? Setting one up this Sunday. Will report back. >I've had some reports of problems in RAID10 mode, where the array doesn't >like being installed onto until it's finished building itself out. I'm >working on that at the moment. Mike can you expand on this? What do you mean by "until it's finished building itself out"? If I do the Alt+3 and do the partitions and wait until all is initialized and then try the FreeBSD install would I be ok? For the machine I am setting up Sunday I am doing Raid 0 (2 drives) and Raid 1 (another 2 drives) so this "issue" won't affect me yet, but I have a machine on order where I was planning on doing Raid 10. >willing to provide reasonable problem reports so that things can be fixed >quickly, I'd say you'll be fine. Mike anything you would like me to try? Any recommended benchmarks? I plan to do a bonnie on the machine before and after RAID, but I am wondering if there is any other good test(s). francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message