On Monday 03 April 2006 12:00, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
> > IDE/SATA RAID that FreeBSD supports the array can be used on ANY system.
> > (Except for booting)
>
> More concisely, is this because said cheap RAID controllers all
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Tenebrae wrote:
> I was looking at the Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA and Promise
> FastTrak TX4300 4-port SATA RAID PCI adapters. I did find a note on the
> Promise card that it is now supported in Current. Is this something that
> might make its way into the 6.x-STABLE b
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
similar controller to hook them up to.
Actually no..
If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
IDE/SATA RAID that Free
Daniel O'Connor writes:
> On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
> > With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
> > similar controller to hook them up to.
>
> Actually no..
> If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
> I
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
> With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
> similar controller to hook them up to.
Actually no..
If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
IDE/SATA RAID that FreeBSD supports the array
I may need to build a box with a RAID 5 array.
After checking the OpenBSD pages for their bioctl's
driver support. Because I really prefer open drivers,
and bioctl seems to be coming Pretty Soon Now to FreeBSD too.
And their bioctl supports the AMI driver
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?q
Daniel O'Connor writes:
> On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
> > > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)
> >
> > It's a matter of the BIOS:
> > will it complain, or will
On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
> > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)
>
> It's a matter of the BIOS:
> will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk?
Yes in
Tenebrae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
>
>> RAID1 is _not_ a backup, but an availability aid.
>> If going for RAID1, be sure to add a backup solution.
>
> More to think about...thank you.
> I am trying to get some peace of mind on a budget, though. I sup
"Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote:
>> Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
>>
>> IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
>> as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
>> is just as
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
> RAID1 is _not_ a backup, but an availability aid.
> If going for RAID1, be sure to add a backup solution.
More to think about...thank you.
I am trying to get some peace of mind on a budget, though. I suppose I
need to give more consideration to what m
On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote:
> Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
>
> IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
> as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
> is just as fast as any RAID controller.
You can't boot off a sys
Tenebrae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm interested in this "newfangled" serial ATA stuff I've been hearing
> about (heh) and thought I might try my hand at getting a RAID1 mirror
> going on for my home dirs. Sadly, I have no experience with RAID.
> I had initially planned on just setting up tw
Tenebrae wrote:
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lars Cleary wrote:
Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
is just as fast as any RAID controller.
Ah, I knew I should hav
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lars Cleary wrote:
> Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
>
> IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
> as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
> is just as fast as any RAID controller.
Ah, I knew I should have mentioned
Tenebrae wrote:
The server will be primarily an e-mail and web server for private use
with some rather large files. There are only a handful of users, but it
gets a bit busy at times when the DJs do an update.
I hope to get this up and running in the next month.
If I've missed something painfu
Hello out there in FreeBSD land (and I hope Søren peeks in, too).
I've been rather behind the times here and am finally getting around to
building a replacement server for my absolutely ancient FreeBSD 4.7
system. It's starting to experience problems (like a couple random
lock-ups/reboots) and I'
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