From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 13 18:17:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A3716A41A for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE5F43D46 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:17:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5DIHaGc047025; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k5DIHZpW047024; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:17:35 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Igor Robul Message-ID: <20060613181735.GB9037@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A949DDA05@VIP10-WIN2K> <20060609055436.GC96439@sysadm.stc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060609055436.GC96439@sysadm.stc> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia RAID on Tyan-S2865 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:17:37 -0000 On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:54:36AM +0400, Igor Robul wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:57:57AM -0400, Toll, Eric wrote: > > If you going to mess around with RAID please just get a real RAID card like > > 3Ware. > I know about 3Ware :-) Moreover I use these cards 8xxx and 7xxx in my > servers. PC with NVidia RAID is just my workstation and I have not lost > any important data. I was very happy when FreeBSD 6.1 "just worked" on > this PC without any trouble :-), and this was my first trouble with > minor data loss with FreeBSD. > > On real servers I use 3Ware or gmirror (depends on server usage). You could use gmirror on your workstation also... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?