From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 10:44:41 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 414B037B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pyroxene.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7C343F75 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by pyroxene.sentex.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5GHid8D005291; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:44:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030616134135.046a0e60@209.112.4.2> X-Sender: mdtpop@209.112.4.2 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:44:36 -0400 To: "Michael R. Wayne" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20030616133112.J386@staff.msen.com> References: <87d6hhn707.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> <20030613041037.C89958@shell.inch.com> <87d6hhn707.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) 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 17:44:41 -0000 The 3ware cards work quite well for this. ~ $120 USD for the 2 port version. During rebuilds the server is still available and you can control for the most part how fast or slow the rebuild process works. Its not very granular, but it does afford some control. Its essentially radio buttons that look like Faster I/O * * * * * Faster Rebuild Give them a try, I think you will like them. ---Mike At 01:31 PM 16/06/2003 -0400, Michael R. Wayne wrote: >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. > >/\/\ \/\/ >_______________________________________________ >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"