Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:43:17 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID? Message-ID: <C1334D93-1177-4087-9AA3-293B98700F98@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <20060106233857.GA997@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20060105224150.GA991@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <A90761EB-CCE9-45BE-A8BF-64E22C9D5799@khera.org> <20060106233857.GA997@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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On Jan 6, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Scott Mitchell wrote: > We'll only be mirroring the internal drives too for now - the 4e/DC > seems > to be the only RAID option on the 1850 with battery-backed cache, and > doesn't cost much more for the extra peace-of-mind. Then you'll be pleasantly surprised to know that the 4e/Si has a battery too. I certainly was... and it even has 256MB of cache RAM. Quite the bargain! I'll send you screen shots of the config menus in private email. >> Unfortunately for me, the latest equipment I just got only takes low- >> profile cards, and LSI doesn't offer a dual channel RAID card in low- >> profile configuration... so I need to look at adaptec. > > This is on your x4100? Nice machine. We have a v20z with dual > Opteron > 270s that I totally love. Looking at getting an x4100 too... sadly > these > are product development machines so they'll be running RedHat and > Solaris. > Doesn't the x4100 have h/w RAID built in? Or does that not work with > FreeBSD? Yes, this is the X4100. It only has room for two low-profile PCI-X cards, which the 320-2X certainly is not. Curiously, LSI has on their web site some big announcements about some deals with Sun to use their products, so one would hope they would have a low-profile high-end card. Currently they only have a low-end card that is low profile. I'm biting the bullet and getting an Adaptec 2230 low profile card. I hope it is fast. if not, then back to the drawing board... sigh.
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