Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:04:11 +0100 From: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@augusta.de> To: Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64 - and Promise RAID controllers??? Message-ID: <20050110140411.GA33947@augusta.de> In-Reply-To: <41E2828A.2030802@axis.nl> References: <41B857A0.2070906@leg.ensieg.inpg.fr> <41DE7DA3.8060206@axis.nl> <20050107132423.GA47763@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <41E2828A.2030802@axis.nl>
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--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 02:26:34PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Last Friday I ranted: >=20 > >In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my > >client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a > >supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win situation > >for both my client and myself. However, somehow I've not yet been able > >to drive that argument home, so who knows...:/ >=20 > Well, eureka, I did it! :) > That is... I managed to convince the client to go hardware RAID. ;) >=20 > They have a preference for the following controller: Promise FAST Trak=20 > S150TX4 >=20 > But.................................. >=20 > As far as I gather from the supported hardware list (fbsd 5.3, amd-64)=20 > at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-amd64.html#DISK >=20 > It looks like this controller is not supported. :( >=20 > To further compound matters, checking the docs on the controller=20 > suggests that, again, this is basically a software RAID solution (no=20 > CPU, no on-board memory, and a 66MHz PCI 2.2 32-bit interface): nice to= =20 > complement their otherwise blazingly fast 64-bit AMD machine, duh! :((( >=20 > Oh well, again I made a very strong suggestion to buy the Adaptec 2200s= =20 > U320 SCSI RAID controller, but we'll see... :) >=20 > Meanwhile, does anyone know of a good hardware SATA RAID controller=20 > capable of supporting RAID 10, and which is properly supported by=20 > FreeBSD 5.3 (amd64)? Any experiences? Any do's and dont's? Hi,=20 I'am runnig some 3ware Storage Controllers on 5.2.1 and=20 5.3 on i386 Hardware. They work well.=20 I use a 3ware 3W-8500-8 disk controller with 4 disks in Raid 5 Mode=20 and some 3ware 3W-7006-2 disk controller with 2 disks in Raid 1 Mode.=20 So far no problems with them. They react well on HotSwaps of defectiv=20 disks (had one diskfailure allready).=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Schmidt | Nick : estartu IRC : Estartu | Fischbachweg 3 | | PGP Public Key 86856 Hiltenfingen | Privat: estartu@augusta.de | auf Anfrage/ Germany | | on request=20 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: S1xZloIzBYSf7c+FfbV3+ZNYA1duvSgQ iQCVAwUBQeKLWgzx22nOTJQRAQHsfQP9F0cX9lj8P6X8WkDZwtudPHC5fQJ0ZLko B4wMExLQKAK5RicYoN+1SJ32KWGkK5xuMllUZp8GBg7CV39xzwMsvPoIA5UDbSh3 Rd0aLWfLYHR3CqsyKy0FW4u0b22f5v8Dva+vHOycNZhFilpgPXmK3ldQe3tdSkXw M1zswgHrt7A= =KTZV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--
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