Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:22:56 -0400 From: William E Reid <wer@cstone.net> To: Presence <presence@irev.net> Cc: Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Controllers Message-ID: <3947DB90.CD33450A@cstone.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003061302420.47606-100000@irev.net>
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I have Pretty much the same story. SmartCard IV in two different machines. A webserver and a new server. Both have been running for at least 1 1/2 years. RAID 5 with five drives. This means that one of the controllers has only one drive. The only input I have is that one of the identical boxes was set up with all of the drives on one controller (webserver). The other had them spread over the three controllers with 2 2 and 1 drives (News Server). The DPT that used all three controllers was more stable. We lost a couple of drives in the webserver over a period of a few monthes. The News server has yet to loose it's first drive. Under FreeBSD 4 I believe the DPT controller is built into the GENERIC kernel. I am setting up one now and checked but have not even booted up yet.... Back to work. -=Bill Presence wrote: > > > I'm trying to find out if anyone has had any luck with either the Adaptec > > AAA-131SA or the DPT SmartRaid IV PM3334UW card. > > Personally, I maintain a FreeBSD 3.4 machine with the SmartRaid IV card > with 32 megs of cache on it driving 6 IBM 9Gig LZX drives and all I did > was uncomment the DPT lines in the kernel's config, compile, and go. > > I configured the DPT's software for RAID 5, booted into FreeBSD, created > a drive under /raid, disklabel, newfs. > > Its been working flawlessly for 8 months now. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Reid | Cornerstone Networks | /\ /\ bill@cstone.net | 410 East Water Street | / \/ \ Engineer | Charlottesville, VA | \ /\ / (800)325-9848 | http://www.cstone.net/ | \/ \/ -------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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