Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)
Hi there Paul, Previous correspondence from Paul Hamilton (15:19 12-1-2004 +0800): How about the Rocket Raid 1540 or the 1820, 8 drive SATA for ~ AUS$330 48bit LBA, can do Raid 1 and single drives at the same time. Raid 5 is slow, because it does software parity checking. Thanks for the tip. I couldn't find it in the 5.2 hardware support pages, though. Highpoint's web site [1] mentions support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.0. It took me a while to find that info. The 1820 also appears to have support for FreeBSD 5.1, according to the website [2]. I suppose I wasn't looking carefully enough. Cheers, Rogier Krieger References: [1] Highpoint RocketRaid 1540 support page [ http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/brr1540.htm ] [2] Highpoint RocketRaid 1820 support page [ http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/brr1820.htm ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)
Previous correspondence from Brent Wiese (18:50 12-1-2004 -0700): 3Ware cards are expensive, but you get what you pay for. Whatever code they have to optimize the disk use works wonders. About a year ago I bought a set of two Escalades and placed them in NetBSD machines. I believe the driver is a port from the FreeBSD version. It has worked like a charm, starting I installed proper cabling. Until that time, I received various array errors, but nothing that damaged data. Switching to the ATA cables 3ware offers, the problem went away. From several people (mainly on the NetBSD lists), I heard similar reports that the Escalade 6xxx and 7xxx are sensitive to the ATA cables you use. Apart from that, the Escalades are worth the expense. My main issue here was lacking a budget for them. Cheers, Rogier Krieger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)
Hi there Jon Previous correspondence from jon (17:09 4-1-2004 -0800): do you have the RAID enabled version for your Promise controller? If so, I guess it's a match yes sir, and I apologize for my vagueness. Thanks for the confirmation. It seems I'll give the controller a try. I heard from one of the NetBSD developers (Manuel Bouyer, see [1]) the Promise card still is a software RAID solution, so I will probably also test the RAIDframe functionality. We'll see how it turns out. I'll be sure to report success. Thanks for checking up on this, Rogier Krieger References: [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2004/01/06/.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)
Hi everyone, a friend of mine and I are thinking a BSD (NetBSD or FreeBSD) system and would like to have RAID-1 hardware. Preferably, an affordable S-ATA RAID version. So far, we're wondering which controller would be a good choice. What we've come up with so far are the Adaptec 1210SA S-ATA RAID controller and a Promise S150 TX2Plus RAID which seem affordable. I have some experience with 3Ware's Escalade models, but they are rather expensive. Hence our search for alternatives. Checking the hardware support pages, I could not find these models (or indication of similar models/ranges) in the hardware notes. Is there anyone with experience with the Adaptec 1210 or Promise S150 cards or are they unsupported. If unsupported, is there anyone with advice of affordable alternative S-ATA RAID controllers? Thanks in advance, Rogier Krieger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)
Hi there Jon, Previous correspondence from jon (14:22 4-1-2004 -0800): On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 14:09, Rogier Krieger wrote: controller and a Promise S150 TX2Plus RAID which 2003 atapci0: Promise PDC20319 SATA150 controller thanks for checking. One thing I still wonder about, though: do you have the RAID enabled version for your Promise controller? If so, I guess it's a match (and I'm glad it works well). Thanks for your quick reply, Rogier Krieger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)
Previous correspondence from Subhro (01:06 5-1-2004 +0530): What is the amount of money you would like to shell out for the card? As I mentioned, it's supposed to be relatively cheap. Say 50 to 100 EUR. (US$ 65 - 125 as present rates). I should've given the figure in my first message. Sorry for that. do you have any good reason for going for SATA and not SCSI (if you need speed) and ATA (i.e. P-ATA [...] I intend to use two WD Raptor S-ATA discs for the machine. From what we've seen so far, their performance is quite remarkable. The 3ware cards are quite expensive, according to the pricing lists I've seen so far. I wonder if the 8506-card mentioned in another post also works in 32bit PCI slots. Otherwise, I'd need a Xeon board. But that's another post in the thread. Thanks for your quick reply, Rogier Krieger -- Eagles fly, but weasels don't get caught in jet engines... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
