as they recommend the 2400A.
Any insight would be great...
-Bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh --
Shire.Net LLC
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:05 PM
To: Micheal Patterson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card
We have a production 4.1.1 box that is acting as a mail server. We are
wanting to beef this box up a bit for a little more survivability.
1) If we put in a newer hardware raid card does the os/kernel still
need a
driver to see it? Or does a hardware raid solution eliminate the need
for
any
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From: Alexander Haderer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD
At 12:39 02.07.2003 -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote:
[...]
It works equally
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 09:44 US/Mountain, Micheal Patterson wrote:
As I recall, that particular system is running an Adaptec 2100S under
FreeBSD 4.8. I've not found any software that can access that
particular
raid directly for configuration from within the running OS.
Actually Adaptec has
Yes, the RAIDing is completely transparent to the OS. You don't even
have to reboot the machine if the disks are hot-swappable. Just pull the
dead one out, install the new one, and the controller will bring it up
to speed. RAID-1 is much faster to rebuild than RAID-5 (just a casual
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From: Johan Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD
Yes, the RAIDing is completely transparent to the OS. You don't even
have to reboot the machine if the disks are hot
At 12:39 02.07.2003 -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote:
[...]
It works equally well with Adaptec hardware raid with 5 SCSI drives in a
Raid 5 configuration. Gotta love FreeBSD. Although, not everyone needs raid
5, but it's nice to know that it works and works well.
hello Michael,
please could you
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Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD
At 12:39 02.07.2003 -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote:
[...]
It works equally well with Adaptec hardware raid with 5 SCSI drives
in a Raid 5 configuration. Gotta love FreeBSD. Although, not
everyone needs raid 5, but it's
Johan Paul wrote:
Hi all,
This might be kind of a newbie question - I apologize for that.
This is my first time I use a hardware RAID card on a server. I was
wondering if there are any issues with FreeBSD (4.8R) regarding these
cards? Will FreeBSD see the RAID1 as a single hard drive that I
