Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:31:46 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Sven Hazejager <sven@chain.demon.nl>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE RAID? Message-ID: <4.3.2.20001112142117.00bb1a40@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20001112132423.023487c0@marble.sentex.net> References: <3A0EDF7E.ECA0310A@chain.demon.nl>
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At 01:30 PM 11/12/00 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: >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) Can second the 3Ware cards, but only have had a few days to play with them. Not sure exactly when install support came in, but with RC1 has it (this after I did it the hard way). The 2 port 6200 runs around $130, 4 port 6400 about $230, and 8 port 6800 around $400. >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. Yea! One thing overlooked was a comment line in MAKEDEV: --- MAKEDEV.orig Thu Nov 9 21:28:29 2000 +++ MAKEDEV Sat Nov 11 21:57:18 2000 @@ -49,4 +49,5 @@ # mlxd* Mylex DAC960 RAID disk volumes # scd* Sony CD-ROM disks +# twe* 3Ware Escalade 3W-5x00/3W-6x00 ATA RAID controllers # vn* vnode disks # wd* "Winchester" disk drives (ST506,IDE,ESDI,RLL,...) Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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