RE: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-16 Thread Jaime Bozza
*Rebuild times? Can't give you an exact since it's been a while since I tested the original rebuild, but we've migrated the RAID set (and volume) twice since getting the system and the migrations happened within hours. I was able to expand the RAID Set (adding drives) and expand the

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-15 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:35:49AM -0600, Jaime Bozza wrote: *Rebuild times? Can't give you an exact since it's been a while since I tested the original rebuild, but we've migrated the RAID set (and volume) twice since getting the system and the migrations happened within hours. I was able

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-15 Thread Jo Rhett
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:30:59PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: What problems are you having there Brian, Im currently in contact with the Highpoint developers over a specific issue with that card's drivers and would be happy to raise any other issues you may be seeing. Heh. Best of luck. I

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/10/06, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy... After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that

RE: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-13 Thread Jaime Bozza
Anyone care to comment on Areca's ARC-11xx PCI-X cards? I'm ?thinking about getting an 1130 (12-port version). We just installed an ARC-1160 so I'll try and answer as many of your questions that I can. *Is the arcmsr driver in FreeBSD stable? I've had no issues. *Any issues with arrays

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-12 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 10, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Brian Szymanski wrote: Also, does anyone know if the megaraid management tools work on freebsd? If you enable compat for freebsd 4 and if you're on amd64 also have compat 32bits, then megamgr works fin on both i386 and amd64. I don't like the other command

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-12 Thread Brian Szymanski
I sent an email to highpoint tech support detailing the problems, and have had no response after an initial ping :( ... Here is a summary of what I sent them: For all tests, I ran bonnie++ over and over again while concurrently copying the contents of /usr to the mounted disk, then rm -rf'ing

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-11 Thread Adam Retter
Interested to hear that you have a problem with your highpoint driver, what sort of problems are you seeing? On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:30 +, Steven Hartland wrote: What problems are you having there Brian, Im currently in contact with the Highpoint developers over a specific issue with that

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Hartland
We've now narrowed it down to one file on the disk which kills the driver due to it thinking the LBA is FF FF FF hence invalid. I've sent highpoint a recent debug dump from the driver which shows that its trying to cross 1024^3 boundary which makes me think atm that there may be boundary

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Hartland
Similar error but not quite the same. When I have more info I'll let you know. Steve - Original Message - From: Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent an email to highpoint tech support detailing the problems, and have had no response after an initial ping :( ... Here is a

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-11 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: The 3Ware cards work really well under FreeBSD. I have dozens I have been using for some time and they work and work well. Highly recommended. Over the years I am sure I have replaced a few dozen dead drives and have not (knock

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Mornin' After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that let you manage while the OS is running that folks have

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Szymanski
Mornin' After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that let you manage while the OS is running that folks

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 10 March 2006 19:31, Brian Szymanski wrote: After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that let you

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Szymanski
Wow - Lots of votes for 3ware. Any votes for something cheaper? The 3ware's are more than I want to spend... Also, does anyone know if the megaraid management tools work on freebsd? Cheers, Brian Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:07:51 +0100 From: Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Atanas
Brian Szymanski said the following on 03/10/06 01:01: Howdy... After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:07:51 +0100 From: Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mornin' After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:01 AM 10/03/2006, Brian Szymanski wrote: Howdy... After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that let you

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread adam
I use a Hightpoint Rocketraid 1640 under FreeBSD 5 and 6 an= d have had no problems with it, works like a dream, I have 3 x 250GB Maxtor drives attached to it in RAID 5 configuration. Highpoint provide the drive= r hpt374.ko I did have a problem with the driver when I upgraded

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, March 10, 2006 1:01 am, Brian Szymanski wrote: After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that let you

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Steven Hartland
What problems are you having there Brian, Im currently in contact with the Highpoint developers over a specific issue with that card's drivers and would be happy to raise any other issues you may be seeing. Aside from the that we have had good experiences with Areca card. Steve -

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Niki Denev
On Friday 10 March 2006 11:07, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Mornin' After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Dotson
3ware cards have worked fantastically for me... until I tried using them with the Tyan S5360-1U Motherboard. I've not been able to boot any distro of FreeBSD 5.x or 6.x with this board and the 3ware 95x series or 8x series SATA cards. However, other then that 1 board incompatibility,

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Dotson
3ware cards have worked fantastically for me... until I tried using them with the Tyan S5360-1U Motherboard. I've not been able to boot any distro of FreeBSD 5.x or 6.x with this board and the 3ware 95x series or 8x series SATA cards. However, other then that 1 board incompatibility,