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Date:      Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:43:32 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        fran@reyes.somos.net ("Francisco Reyes")
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3ware anyone ?
Message-ID:  <39b1821a.943974072@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.967876932.307161292@news.sentex.net>
References:  <200009012058.NAA06031@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <SEN.967876932.307161292@news.sentex.net>

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On 2 Sep 2000 02:42:13 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote:

What sorts of speeds are you getting with RAID 1 and 10 ? I gave up on the
card for that configuration because it was incredibly slow.  RAID 0 is
great, but I was quite disappointed in the speed of the mirror.  

What sort of results do you get with bonnie ?


	---Mike

>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).



Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers 
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)


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