Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:49:53 -0500 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: gerald@homes-on-line.com Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10 Message-ID: <20050303154953.GU90757@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <1bcf5ef9050303011052f49965@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050302104641.44708.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> <20050302111457.GB97448@pc5-179.lri.fr> <024601c51f33$eda69e40$0c00a8c0@artem> <57d7100005030221505d8ff1b2@mail.gmail.com> <1bcf5ef9050303011052f49965@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:10:00AM +0000, Gerald de la Pascua wrote:
> we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards,
> I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance,
> in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a similar price to two
> disks to plug into them. When a disk fails you would willingly pay
> many times this amount,
I've been using a cheapo Promise controller in a RAID 1+0 for years,
literally.
atapci1@pci0:19:0: class=0x010485 card=0x4d68105a chip=0x6269105a
rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc'
device = 'PDC20271 FastTrak TX2000 EIDE controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = RAID
atapci1: <Promise TX2 ATA133 controller> port
0xe800-0xe80f,0xe400-0xe403,0xe000-0xe007,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xd800-0xd807 mem
0xd6000000-0xd600ffff irq 11 at device 1 9.0 on pci0
ar0: 228881MB <ATA RAID0+1 array> [29178/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad4: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA1 00
1 READY ad5: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata2-sla
ve UDMA100
2 READY ad6: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata3-mas
ter UDMA100
3 READY ad7: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata3-sla
ve UDMA100
> kind regards, Gerald
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Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
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Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large
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