From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 14:57:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE35E16A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:57:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com) Received: from glaaki.masonitg.com (glaaki.masonitg.com [66.119.7.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA5943D49 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:57:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com) Received: from [192.168.0.58] (unknown [24.137.137.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by glaaki.masonitg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAA18E67C; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:57:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:57:48 -0500 From: "Aaron C. Meadows" Organization: ShadowGuard Development User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Hardware RAID Cards.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:57:51 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there. I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives. My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card? Contingent question is, if I should get another RAID card, what would be a good, supported, entry level card? This server will be purposed as a webserver for a small webhosting company, maybe 100 sites on it. Running Postfix,Bind,Apache2,PHP,Postgresql,etc Thanks for the help! - --Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFCk0Ds/mrzqN8FLFURAp15AJUYy2qw69BsB1OrCDk0lLNEjom4AJ4maVRq WzD8N71349KhBLPYy5zrfg== =cxo+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----