From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 12 10:30:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7BD37B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 10:30:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eACIWbh14220; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:32:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20001112132423.023487c0@marble.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@marble.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:30:10 -0500 To: Sven Hazejager , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: IDE RAID? In-Reply-To: <3A0EDF7E.ECA0310A@chain.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message