From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 09:10:02 2005 Return-Path: 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 4F8E116A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56A543D1F for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:10:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geralddelapascua@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so407618wri for ; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:10:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=KVbxw3GvtjddKKMY3WKWfs8n98PGhFOhw61noZYdjN23FBfa77JjfJRDzaikLYn7tn+5wbU+BQrdR52q+qtHv/puA+bzbwsvBkyA0b8g0gTXuZdSegpXFz8wO/LvQ4nW+XuJTuIHlwwlkxkeInsUQKB+pD0ny9BYh2YSz2GJlI8= Received: by 10.54.63.12 with SMTP id l12mr171735wra; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.25.33 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:10:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1bcf5ef9050303011052f49965@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:10:00 +0000 From: Gerald de la Pascua To: pete wright In-Reply-To: <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> cc: Artem Kuchin cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gerald@homes-on-line.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:10:02 -0000 we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards, I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance, in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a similar price to two disks to plug into them. When a disk fails you would willingly pay many times this amount, kind regards, Gerald On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:50:41 -0800, pete wright wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: > > Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) > > controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? > > > > It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB IDE > > driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for sure). > > sorry I don't know of any really cheap one's off hand, altho I do have > experience with 3Ware RAID cards on 4.x. They seemed to work well, > and they are less expensive than proper SCSI cards...altho slower. If > cost really an issue would it be worth mirroring your disks in > software via VINUM? > > -p > > -- > ~~o0OO0o~~ > Pete Wright > www.nycbug.org > NYC's *BSD User Group > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >