Re: Areca vs. ZFS performance testing.

2009-01-21 Thread Danny Carroll
Koen Smits wrote: Areca Support: Dear Sir, the only difference is in JBOD mode, controller configure all drives as passthrough disk. in RAID mode, you have to configure passthrough disk by yourself in RAID mode in other words, you can use raid with passthrough

Areca 1200 controller panics 7.1

2009-01-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi folks, see attached screenshot for panic screen. This happens when booting from 7.1-release CD. The box is a Sun X2200 M2, the controller is a 2- port SATA-II controller with 128mb cache memory. One drive is set as single drive (RAID-0), another as passthrough (to get hold of some data

Closure: Is it possible to make a bootable RAID on AMD 700 series chipset? Answer: No

2009-01-21 Thread ThinkDifferently
Jia-Shiun Li wrote: ataraid(4) does not have any info about ATI chipsets, and nor does dmraid of Linux. Supposingly ATI did not release info about software RAID metadata format so there is little the community can do. Since AMD released GPU info after acquiring ATI, maybe they need a

Re: Areca 1200 controller panics 7.1

2009-01-21 Thread Eirik Øverby
Attachment not getting throuh. Panic transcribed below. /Eirik On Jan 21, 2009, at 20:53, Eirik Øverby wrote: Hi folks, see attached screenshot for panic screen. This happens when booting from 7.1-release CD. The box is a Sun X2200 M2, the controller is a 2-port SATA-II controller with