Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an
Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM
Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives.
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card?
Contingent question is, if I should get another RAID card, what would
be a good, supported, entry level card? This server will be purposed
as a webserver for a small webhosting company, maybe 100 sites on it.
Running Postfix,Bind,Apache2,PHP,Postgresql,etc
I'm running a Netfinity 5000 with IBM ServeRAID 3L adapter. I won't say
it's good (it lacks any kind of online RAID management or monitoring
from within FreeBSD AFAICT), but it works and is definitely 'entry
level'. This machine works as a webmail/IMAP server for ~150 users,
listserver hosting ~50 mailing lists and as incoming mail
scanner/gateway (postfix+amavisd+spamassassin+clamav) for another mail
server with ca 500 users. Getting it to work with FreeBSD 5.2.1 was a
pain, but 5.3 seems to run good. Doesn't boot with ACPI enabled, though.
As to other suggestions made in this thread, they don't seem to be
relevant for Netfinity 5000 since I can't think of a way to use ATA
drives in this machine.
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