From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 26 3:13: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6B537B400 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 03:12:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.252.56.102]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020126111254.CNPF8848.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com>; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:12:54 +0000 Received: from lfarr (l-farr.bka.epcdirect.co.uk [192.168.10.200]) by pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0QBCrK45679; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:12:53 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: Cc: , "'Jason Andresen'" , "'Kent Stewart'" Subject: RE: Multiple Promise controllers Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:12:51 -0000 Message-ID: <002d01c1a65a$6620af10$c80aa8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3C51D95B.D12CB0A4@mitre.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I love the 3ware controllers, and have: twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xa400-0xa40f mem 0xde800000-0xdeffffff,0xdf000000-0xdf00000f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.02.01.043, BIOS BE7X 1.07.01.009 twed0: on twe0 twed0: 667766MB (1367586304 sectors) Now they're on sale again, Im gonna get a few more! Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Andresen > Sent: 25 January 2002 22:17 > To: Kent Stewart > Cc: craig@meoqu.gank.org; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers > > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > Jason Andresen wrote: > > > > > Craig Boston wrote: > > > > > >>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:24:47 -0600 mikea > wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>>If the manufacturer says you can only use, or that they only > > >>>support, one card in the system, then what basis in fact do > > >>>you have for thinking it possible to use two? > > >>> > > >>I use two with no problem on 4.4-STABLE: > > >> > > > > > > So am I. It's when I add the third one that problems occur. > > > > Have you tried the tx4? The other thing is that by the time you get > > this kind of setup shouldn't you be looking at scsi anyway. I think > > you have passed beyond what IDE was intended to be used. > > The TX4 didn't really do what I wanted. I was looking to build a > slow large RAID5 drive array. The TX4 only supports RAID1, > 0, and 1_0. > I'm actually trying to get back to the original intent of > RAID by using > a large number of inexpensive disks (and moderatly priced support > hardware). I've actually managed to get it working, but I had to use > the motherboard's ATA controller (a PIIX4 limited to ATA33 and forcing > on the of the drives to be the slave to the primary HD). I have > 10 80GB hard drives in the system, 4 of which are a RAID0 array for > backups and the other 6 are a RAID5 data server. I was hoping to > get all of the big data drives on the Promise controllers, but I > couldn't > get the third one working (I've got the data drives as the > master on all > of the contollers and the backup as the slave, since they shouldn't > generally be used at the same time). The entire setup works > pretty well > (and it cost me < $1500 since I used an old PII > motherboard/processor). > Not too bad for something that gives me over half a terabyte of usable > storage (286GB and 361GB to be precise). > > -- > \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org > |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer > _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message