Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:30:10 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Sven Hazejager <sven@chain.demon.nl>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE RAID? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20001112132423.023487c0@marble.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <3A0EDF7E.ECA0310A@chain.demon.nl>
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I dont have any direct experience with the controllers listed below on
FreeBSD, however I did try the Fasttrak a year or so ago on NT and was less
than impressed with it under even a medium load. The IDE RAID card I have
had good experience with is the one from 3ware. (www.3ware.com). I have
been using it in RAID 0 and RAID 1 on a number of servers with very good
results and reliability, including booting from it (e.g)
> df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a 297663 32705 241145 12% /
/dev/twed0s1f 26106691 1337834 22680322 6% /usr
/dev/twed0s1e 992239 18601 894259 2% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
>
Read write performance is very nice. Have a look through the archives where
I have posted some numbers in the past. Also, there will soon be native
disk management utilities direct from 3ware.
---Mike
At 07:20 PM 11/12/2000 +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm going to install a new FreeBSD server and I'm looking into an
>Ultra-ATA 100 RAID solution. So far, my searches on Dejanews seem to
>indicate that there are some problems with either installing FreeBSD, or
>booting FreeBSD from a RAID volume. I would like to configure two hard
>drives in a mirror (RAID1) config, and install and run the latest
>FreeBSD-STABLE on it. I'm considering either the Abit Hot Rod 100 or the
>Promise Fasttrack 100 RAID PCI cards. Does anyone have experience with
>either of those?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sven Hazejager
>
>
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