From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Dec 6 11:19:58 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 522CF37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:19:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82BF43EB2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:19:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB6JJqAm010637; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:19:52 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gB6JJp7j010635; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:19:51 -0800 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:19:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Nate Lawson Cc: Miroslav Pendev , SCSI FreeBSD Subject: Re: OT: UltraTrac SX8000 SCSI-to-ATA RAID - 1TB Message-ID: <20021206111950.D1950@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <003b01c29d3f$36d69c10$c801a8c0@vsivyoung> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AbQceqfdZEv+FvjW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from nate@root.org on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:05:14AM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu 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 --AbQceqfdZEv+FvjW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:05:14AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > 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). > >=20 > > 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? I've got one with 120GB disks. It works quite well was as the ftp storage for the internal mirror server at work. > > 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? >=20 > You lose a lot of space if you format that as one volume. At least with 120GB disks it does work: /dev/da1s1e 789G 441G 285G 61% /mirrors/ftp It looks like we're going to need something better next year though. :-) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --AbQceqfdZEv+FvjW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE98PhVXY6L6fI4GtQRAvHiAKCGy0nhQYciCiFJvrFdIHNFOGQDogCghxKS UXlr5KPus/Ur8fUknHsVuf4= =tqDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AbQceqfdZEv+FvjW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message