From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 21 21:22: 5 2001 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 C5EF937B403; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:22:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id f5M4M1Y43635; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:22:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.4/8.11.2av) with ESMTP id f5M4LuA43627; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:21:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010622002015.024056d0@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:21:55 -0400 To: Mike Smith From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 3 3ware controllers? Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200106220429.f5M4Tlw05112@mass.dis.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:29 PM 6/21/2001 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > At 07:04 PM 6/21/2001 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > 2 3ware 6800's, one 7800. The 7800 comes up (with a -stable > > > > > >There shouldn't be; if you get a command interrupt, it'll just mask them > > >off. > > > > > > BTW, has anyone tried / used the 3ware card in RAID5 mode with 4 disks ? > > From what I am told, its not the most efficient to use RAID 5 on 4 disks, > > but the application its for needs a lot of storage space with more > emphasis > > on reliability as opposed to speed (RAID10). > >Yes. It works, as you'd expect. It's just not very impressive, also as >you'd expect. Its merely for storing big archival dump files, so speed is not so important in this application. Main thing is reliability. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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