On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:19:12PM -0500, Jim Razmus wrote: > I have already replaced two Adaptec controllers with LSI Logic > MEGARAID SATA 150-6 cards. I then added a call to bioctl in
These LSI Megaraid cards are 64-bit PCI, right? Do they have a PCI Express version? What motherboards are folks using that support these (64 bit) PCI slots? Most "consumer grade" x86 motherboards only have 32-bit PCI slots. I've seen very few motherboards (at least at newegg) that have 64-bit PCI, and they're very expensive. > I have them setup with 5 drives in a RAID 5 configuration and the > sixth drive is a hot spare. I can't say enough about this card > and it's support with OpenBSD. In addition to replacing the > existing cards, we build our new machines with them. I get the impression that you're building "commercial" or "industrial" quality machines... I use those terms very loosely, i.e. you're building something that you expect to have as little downtime as possible and last a while, correct? What kind of hard drives are you using in your RAID? I gather they are SATA, but are they specially designed/manufactured "server grade" drives, or just off-the-shelf consumer grade drives? What I'm getting at is that I'd like to build a fairly beefy mass storage box. OpenBSD is so nice as a "set it and forget it" OS; I'd like to have the same kind of confidence in my hardware (without going broke). Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email
