From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 10:31:14 2003 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 1767837B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manor.msen.com (manor.msen.com [148.59.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A1B43FA3 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@staff.msen.com) Received: from manor.msen.com (wayne@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manor.msen.com (8.12.7M/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h5GHVCEa027173 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:31:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by manor.msen.com (8.12.7M/8.12.7/Submit) id h5GHVCPK027172 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:31:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:31:12 -0400 From: "Michael R. Wayne" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030616133112.J386@staff.msen.com> References: <20030613041037.C89958@shell.inch.com> <87d6hhn707.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <87d6hhn707.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org>; from chris@shenton.org on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:54:00PM -0400 Subject: Re: state of ide raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:31:14 -0000 We've been messing with some of the IDE RAID controllers without a lot of success. All we care about is RAID 1 on a single disk (basically to get high availablity on simple servers). Our tests with Highpoint controllers indicate that the system becomes essentially unavailable during rebuild. We'd like to find an IDE RAID solution that did not suffer from this problem since the only reason we want the RAID is to increase uptime, not reduce it. Almost seems like the right answer would be a device that went between the controller and 2 drives to mirror the data. This would mean no O/S support (or knowledge) is required. But the only ones I've found do not support current high capacity, high speed drives. /\/\ \/\/