From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Dec 6 11: 5:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE8937B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:05:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2911643EB2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:05:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 16126 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Dec 2002 19:05:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:05:14 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Miroslav Pendev Cc: SCSI FreeBSD Subject: Re: OT: UltraTrac SX8000 SCSI-to-ATA RAID - 1TB In-Reply-To: <003b01c29d3f$36d69c10$c801a8c0@vsivyoung> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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