From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 14 12:37:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from Astrovan.cstone.net (astrovan.cstone.net [209.145.64.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC5837BD10 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wer@cstone.net) Received: from cstone.net (nomad.eng.cstone.net [209.145.66.28]) by Astrovan.cstone.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59789U13500L1350S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:31:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3947DB90.CD33450A@cstone.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:22:56 -0400 From: William E Reid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Presence Cc: Marius Strom , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Controllers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have Pretty much the same story. SmartCard IV in two different machines. A webserver and a new server. Both have been running for at least 1 1/2 years. RAID 5 with five drives. This means that one of the controllers has only one drive. The only input I have is that one of the identical boxes was set up with all of the drives on one controller (webserver). The other had them spread over the three controllers with 2 2 and 1 drives (News Server). The DPT that used all three controllers was more stable. We lost a couple of drives in the webserver over a period of a few monthes. The News server has yet to loose it's first drive. Under FreeBSD 4 I believe the DPT controller is built into the GENERIC kernel. I am setting up one now and checked but have not even booted up yet.... Back to work. -=Bill Presence wrote: > > > I'm trying to find out if anyone has had any luck with either the Adaptec > > AAA-131SA or the DPT SmartRaid IV PM3334UW card. > > Personally, I maintain a FreeBSD 3.4 machine with the SmartRaid IV card > with 32 megs of cache on it driving 6 IBM 9Gig LZX drives and all I did > was uncomment the DPT lines in the kernel's config, compile, and go. > > I configured the DPT's software for RAID 5, booted into FreeBSD, created > a drive under /raid, disklabel, newfs. > > Its been working flawlessly for 8 months now. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Reid | Cornerstone Networks | /\ /\ bill@cstone.net | 410 East Water Street | / \/ \ Engineer | Charlottesville, VA | \ /\ / (800)325-9848 | http://www.cstone.net/ | \/ \/ -------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message