Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:07:21 +0200 (SAST) From: Irvine Short <irvine@sanbi.ac.za> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID controllers Message-ID: <20031003090633.X40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <86n0cj1oba.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <20031001164314.Q40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za> <86n0cj1oba.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Chris Shenton wrote: > I got a DELL 600SC "server" a while back, not expensive, came with a > DELL "CERC"-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI > controller card. thanks Chris and other who replied! Much appreciated. Cheers, Irvine I've been running them as a couple RAID-5 volumes > under FreeBSD-5.x. Do a search on the lists for CERC and you should > find my other postings on this. > > I had some problems with drives failing but it appears it was an early > run of flakey WD1200JB 120GB drives, not the controller. > > I haven't tried hot swapping or other stuff, but that's not why I > bought it. > Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 cel: +27-82-494 3828
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