Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:05:14 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Miroslav Pendev <miro@cybershade.us> Cc: SCSI FreeBSD <scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: UltraTrac SX8000 SCSI-to-ATA RAID - 1TB Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212061059530.15885-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <003b01c29d3f$36d69c10$c801a8c0@vsivyoung>
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Miroslav Pendev wrote: > I'm going to buy UltraTrak SX 8000 SCSI-to-ATA RAID and it will > be connected to FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE (file server). > > It is Ultra 160 SCSI and it must appear as standard SCSI device to > any OS, but I just would like to ask if there is anybody with > SX8000 under FreeBSD with production system, any problems? There are many products like this and I'd be surprised if there was a problem with its SCSI emulation. The question that is more important to me is "are the IDE drives hot swappable?" > It will be setup as 8x160GB RAID 5 which means I will almost hit 1TB. > Is it good idea to format the whole thing as one slice or not? You lose a lot of space if you format that as one volume. > Can somebody recommend a nice Ultra 160 SCSI card for this thing > under FreeBSD? I'm pretty sure any Adaptec U160 can handle it, but... I like the 29160 and have had no problems with it. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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