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Date:      Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:44:31 +0000
From:      Gerald de la Pascua <geralddelapascua@gmail.com>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:    Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10
Message-ID:  <1bcf5ef905030308445d2ea893@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050303154953.GU90757@numachi.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> <20050303154953.GU90757@numachi.com>

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Brian, 

I am interested in your experiences with the promise raid card, 

what driver does it use?   ( we use the 3ware with the twe )

is there management software to monitor it like the 3ware?

can you set it up to email you on a disk failure, 

are there comand line tools from unix to monitor it ( don't know if
3ware has these actually !)

what model do you use and approximately how much are they?

thanks in advance, 

Gerald



On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:49:53 -0500, Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Brian Reichert                          <reichert@numachi.com>
> 37 Crystal Ave. #303                    Daytime number: (603) 434-6842
> Derry NH 03038-1713 USA                 BSD admin/developer at large
>



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