On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Hi, since my fileservers bootdisk died this night, I'm toying with the idea to move over to a SATA-RAID setup. Are there any known problems with LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-4 and FreeBSD 6.0 around?
nope, it works just fine, it's even listed in the amr manpage.
Is it easy to attach a 4th disk later and enlarge the 3disk RAID-5 setup I plan to start with?
That's a controller issue primarily, although you will have to expand the freebsd slice, which might require some magicks, or a backup/restore.
Is there a FreeBSD tool around for managing the controler like mlxcontrol for Mylex controlers? If not, can I manage it through it's BIOS interface or am I stuck to MS-DOS or worse MS-Windows?
there is an open source monitoring tool ( not management ). The card is fully bios manageble.
Anything else I should know about this controller before I'm gioing to buy it?
I'd purchase the 300-8x, which should have a substantially faster onboard cpu. The 150-x is a bit of a dog compared to other current sata raid options. most of these questions arent freebsd specific, and quite offtopic for current@ list .... -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
