From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 1:55: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vega.uli.it (vega.uli.it [62.212.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E3637BE8D for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 01:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olgeni@uli.it) Received: from olgeni.uli.it (olgeni.uli.it [62.212.0.22]) by vega.uli.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3115E3B00C for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:54:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:55:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Jimmy Olgeni X-Sender: olgeni@olgeni.localdomain.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: large IDE raid Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello world, I'm a clueless FreeBSD newbie with some linux experience. I have to set up a large RAID for a somewhat big mail/http server for an ISP (~500GB, "internet free mail"), and my company was looking into raidzone, that is, a RAID made of inexpensive IDE drives with a custom PCI controller. Raidzone supports linux and NT only, and it looks like they don't give away the driver source code, so it can't easily be ported to *BSD. Do you know of any similar products that support *BSD? Should I get a clue and push for real SCSI? Should I use a hardware RAID controller, or vinum? Are there any known "strange" interactions between vinum, quotas and softupdates? Any help is really welcome. bye, Jimmy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message