From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 02:43:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402AD16A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 02:43:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E44E43D46 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 02:43:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (unknown [192.168.1.6]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B59EB85A for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:43:16 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <20060106233857.GA997@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20060105224150.GA991@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20060106233857.GA997@tuatara.fishballoon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:43:17 -0500 To: freebsd-stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:43:18 -0000 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.