supermicro sat2-mv8 sata raid card driver

2012-10-22 Thread ds
Hello, are there any plans to provide a driver for the supermicro sat2-mv8 (8-port) sata raid card ? Kind regards, Dirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)

2010-04-04 Thread John
Hi, In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free version. Here are the OSes I tried: FreeBSD 8 FreeBSD 9 NetBSD 5.0.2 CentOS Ubuntu 9.10

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)

2010-04-04 Thread pluknet
On 4 April 2010 19:33, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free version. Here are the

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-04-01 Thread John
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:56:06AM +0100, krad wrote: we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. I configured the disks as JBOD but got the same results. I think the

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-04-01 Thread krad
On 1 April 2010 14:58, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:56:06AM +0100, krad wrote: we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. I

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-31 Thread krad
once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-30 Thread John
to change to older RAID controller, or move to newer FreeBSD version. Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD

freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread John
Hello list I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server. Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on the SATA card (raid0 gives about 5.4Tb) but freebsd, after sysinstall loads

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello list I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server. Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size TB. AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more hands on

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread krad
On 29 March 2010 15:39, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread John
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:57:08PM +0100, krad wrote: I think his problem is he cant see a device to partition in the first place? This is correct. -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5

Re: SATA, RAID and AHCI

2008-08-26 Thread DA Forsyth
On 26 Aug 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 230, Issue 4: Message: 25 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:29:08 -0600 Subject: SATA, RAID and AHCI Hi, This question is about the storage settings for this board (ASUS' name for it is Storage Configuration

SATA, RAID and AHCI

2008-08-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
had hundreds of, can't create symlink, no inodes free, during the copying of the files into the newly created file systems. Now, I'm a complete neophyte to making these SATA RAID systems. What's the magic to making it work, and how do you keep the DVD drive from being part of the RAID? Also

Re: Looking for 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0

2008-07-22 Thread Leonid Satanovsky
Thanks to David Mark and Bill - Think, we'll try High Point's one. ) David Robillard wrote: Does annybody know some 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0? Take a look at http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ Good cards which are well supported in FreeBSD

Looking for 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0

2008-07-21 Thread Leonid Satanovsky
Hi, people! Does annybody know some 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0? [we have an old mailserver with only 32-bit PCI slots in it] Thanks in advance, --les. -- Best regards, Leonid E

Re: Looking for 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0

2008-07-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Leonid Satanovsky wrote: Hi, people! Does annybody know some 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0? [we have an old mailserver with only 32-bit PCI slots in it] I suspect that 3ware would be a good choice although I have not used

Re: Looking for 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Picone
, Leonid Satanovsky wrote: Hi, people! Does annybody know some 32-bit PCI SATA RAID contoller supported under FreeBSD 6.2/7.0? [we have an old mailserver with only 32-bit PCI slots in it] I suspect that 3ware would be a good choice although I have not used these with FreeBSD. Bill signature.asc

Intel SATA RAID SRCS16 performance

2008-06-26 Thread Deceased
Hi, this week I got server with Intel(R) RAID Controller SRCS16 8 port SATA RAID controller, which needed to be reinstalled. After backing all data and reinstall, I noticed that writing to logical drives almost never exceeds 700 bytes/sec. Testing with dd : dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/test.dat

Highpoint Rocketraid 1520 / 1522 SATA RAID controllers.

2008-03-02 Thread Ezat - Ezatech
Hello, Anyone using highpoint rocketraid SATA Raid controllers? I am specifically looking at the 1520 or the 1522 model. The question is once the configuration is done on the card, is it represented to FreeBSD as one drive instead of two which currently my cheapy raid

SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M

2008-02-04 Thread Leonid Satanovsky
Hello, people! Does anybody know whether the SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M motherboard is supported by FreeBSD 6.3 ... or 7.0? -- We are choosing a motherboard for a low-end mail server (this is a small company with lots of mail,... and the host will also

Re: SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M

2008-02-04 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Monday 04 February 2008 09:43:56 am Leonid Satanovsky wrote: Hello, people! Does anybody know whether the SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M motherboard is supported by FreeBSD 6.3 ... or 7.0? -- We are choosing a motherboard for a low-end mail server

Re: SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My experience with the onboard BIOS RAID of various motherboards has been horrific. I'd suggest one of two paths, depending on the RAID configuration you're going for. you well called it BIOS RAID. because it is actually completely normal hardware, just with crappy software RAID in BIOS.

cerc sata raid vs geom mirror

2007-06-01 Thread Evren Yurtesen
I have a question, both cerc(aac) sata raid and geom are software solutions. Can anybody tell if cerc(aac) has any advantages over geom? and what disadvantages does it have? can I still access the drives with smartmontools etc.? Thanks, Evren

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:33 AM Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2) - Original Message

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread George Vanev
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:50 PM Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2) George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have HP ProLiantML 110 G3 server. I

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi George! Common problem. The issue isn't that the FreeBSD driver cannot talk to the SATA controller. It can do that just fine. The problem is that HP is using a modified metadata format on the disk drives. What you need to do is go into the Proliant BIOS and DISABLE the SATA raid

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread applecom
is SCSI HostRAID and that you've SATA one. But look at the driver for your SATA RAID for Windows. You can find in driver's files both 'SATA'/'Serial ATA' and 'SCSI' words. There is definitely 'AHA3985' string in .sys file for Windows. Maybe it was remade for SATA. Probably FreeBSD hasn't working

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
AM Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2) Hi George! Common problem. The issue isn't that the FreeBSD driver cannot talk to the SATA controller. It can do that just fine. The problem is that HP is using a modified metadata format on the disk drives. What you need

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
. Win XP came out before SATA and Microsquash never put in the primitives to support the higher SATA speeds in XP. So in order to get faster speed you gotta write your Windows driver to look like a SCSI miniport driver. MS also don't certify SATA for WCHL so if you are selling SATA raid chipsets

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread George Vanev
- Original Message - From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:57 AM Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2) Hi George! Common problem

HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-24 Thread George Vanev
I have HP ProLiantML 110 G3 server. I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2. But it doesn't seem to recognise the RAID controller. I don't know what exactly is the controller. In the hp site I didn't find anything usefull, except that this is HP embedded SATA RAID controller Not much, uh?! Any one

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-24 Thread applecom
George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have HP ProLiantML 110 G3 server. I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2. But it doesn't seem to recognise the RAID controller. I don't know what exactly is the controller. In the hp site I didn't find anything usefull, except that this is HP embedded SATA

ICH7 SATA RAID (LSI MegaRAID)

2006-11-22 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I've bought a small server with Intel SE7230NH1 motherboard, which incorporates the ICH7 SATA RAID controller. Using the LSI BIOS utility, I created a RAID1 array of two disks and installed FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 (amd64) on it. atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x30c8-0x30cf

RE: ICH7 SATA RAID (LSI MegaRAID)

2006-11-22 Thread Tamouh H.
Hello! I've bought a small server with Intel SE7230NH1 motherboard, which incorporates the ICH7 SATA RAID controller. Using the LSI BIOS utility, I created a RAID1 array of two disks and installed FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 (amd64) on it. atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x30c8

SATA Raid controller.

2006-10-17 Thread Arek
Hello, Can someone give me an advice about good sata raid controller? I'd like have RAID 5. I thinking about buying RAID INTEL SRCS28X Serial ATA II Have someone this controller? How this work with RELENG_6? Thank you for any advice. Regards Arek -- UNIX is like a wigwam: no windows

Re: SATA Raid controller.

2006-10-17 Thread Jahilliya
On 10/17/06, Arek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can someone give me an advice about good sata raid controller? I'd like have RAID 5. I thinking about buying RAID INTEL SRCS28X Serial ATA II Have someone this controller? How this work with RELENG_6? Thank you for any advice. Regards Arek

6.1 hangs at boot, sata raid controller unsupported?

2006-05-10 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, I have had this problem since I tried to install 6.0 on my desktop workstation, and even in 6.1, which has improved SATA RAID support, it persists. Original thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-April/118272.html Problem: FreeBSD hangs when it detects my 120GB

Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in? Or will there be any complications with FreeBSD being initially

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
Hello, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in?

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in? Or i

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:13:02PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS,

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:03, Igor Robul wrote: I recommend you to follow this rule:  If it is not broken, then dont fix it. In your case I think you better leave all as is. Igor Actually one of the reasons is I get loads of out of memory errors (and a few others) during high load. Prob

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i think - just YES. no problem Wojciech You were right to have faith! It went perfectly and the server is now up on gmirror. Only took 90 mins or so to rebuilt a 200GB disk too. I've got to say this gmirror thing is scarily easy to set

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
Ashley Moran wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i think - just YES. no problem Wojciech You were right to have faith! It went perfectly and the server is now up on gmirror. Only took 90 mins or so to rebuilt a 200GB disk too. I've got to say this

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Apr 06, 2006, at 5:35 pm, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi Ashley, I'm glad things worked well for you. Faith got you this far but how long do you want to depend upon it? A long time ago I was tasked with the administration of some HP-UX boxes running on K-series hardware. I didn't setup the

Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I am new on RAID, I googled a bit on how to install freebsd with RAID-1. But I found mostly references to software raid, and I have a CERC SATA RAID controler (6 channel). Is this because hardware RAID-1 Just Works (TM)? or how do I make sure that my raid is actually used and not just

Re: Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working

2006-03-08 Thread Fluffles
Anyone can help me please? Original Message Hi guys! I hope you can help me with this, i've been at it for hours now. I want to use my RAID array (striping or mirroring) for FreeBSD. But the problem is: it doesn't work properly. My config: Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 - nVidia

Re: Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Fluffles wrote: Anyone can help me please? If you don't get any replies on questions, try the hardware mailing list (you might have to subscribe first) and if *that* fails, try submitting a PR. I assume you've tried google? hth, --Alex ___

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I am new on RAID, I googled a bit on how to install freebsd with RAID-1. But I found mostly references to software raid, and I have a CERC SATA RAID controler (6 channel). Is this because hardware RAID-1 Just Works (TM)? or how do I make sure that my raid

Re: Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working

2006-03-08 Thread Enlightenment
. Maybe i'm doing something wrong or FreeBSD needs some help/config for my SATA RAID in order to work properly. I'll try the hardware mailinglist, thanks! - Veronica ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: If the controller is supported, then it should just work, but unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its BIOS. It looks like the controller is supported by the aac driver so

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: If the controller is supported, then it should just work, but unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its BIOS. It looks like the controller is supported

Solved: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: So whatever utilities Dell(?) provide should work. You should be able to find those on the manufacturer's website and maybe even in the ports. cd /usr/ports make search name=aac finds this: Port: aaccli-1.0 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/aaccli Info: Adaptec SCSI RAID

Promise TX2200/2300 SATA RAID Controllers - New Driver/BIOS Problem

2006-03-07 Thread Jud
At the beginning of February, Promise released a new BIOS (version 2.5.0.3115) for the TX2300 and a new Windows driver (version 2.06.0.311) for the TX2200/2300. After installing the new BIOS and driver on my TX2300, neither the BSDINSTALLER iso from early December nor a -CURRENT installation iso

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/5/06, Beastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-07 Thread Beastie
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/5/06, Beastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and

Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working

2006-03-06 Thread Fluffles
Hi guys! I hope you can help me with this, i've been at it for hours now. I want to use my RAID array (striping or mirroring) for FreeBSD. But the problem is: it doesn't work properly. My config: Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 - nVidia GeForce 6100 chipset - nVidia nForce 410 MCP - Socket 939 2 * Hitachi

Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working

2006-03-06 Thread Fluffles
Hi guys! I hope you can help me with this, i've been at it for hours now. I want to use my RAID array (striping or mirroring) for FreeBSD. But the problem is: it doesn't work properly. My config: Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 - nVidia GeForce 6100 chipset - nVidia nForce 410 MCP - Socket 939 2 * Hitachi

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-05 Thread Beastie
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were someone suggesting either dd or diskinfo as

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were someone suggesting either dd or diskinfo as accurate benchmarks, when in fact my contribution was to suggest unixbench and

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were someone suggesting either dd or diskinfo as accurate benchmarks, when in

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Beastie
Your performance sucks because, to quote the manual, Input data is read and written in 512-byte blocks. Try a sensible blocksize. 16k would mimic a standard file system block, but even that is likely to underestimate. If you were, say, copying the disk to another you could easily use

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beastie wrote: second tools is diskinfo, but i'm not quite happy with the result. #diskinfo -t /dev/amrd0s1d /dev/amrd0s1d 512 # sectorsize 96609024# mediasize in bytes (931G) 1953118377 # mediasize in sectors 121575 # Cylinders

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] Why not happy? Transfer rates from 53 to 92Mb/s, give or take; what's wrong with that? On a plain sata disk I get: Seek times: Full stroke: 250 iter in 4.717248 sec = 18.869 msec Half stroke: 250

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: This and all the other benchmarks you've run are useless. Run a real benchmark like iozone. It's in ports under benchmarks/iozone. http://www.iozone.org/ Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: This and all the other benchmarks you've run are useless. Run a real benchmark like iozone. It's in ports under benchmarks/iozone. http://www.iozone.org/ Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments.

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-01 Thread Beastie
419M 61G 1%/usr /dev/amrd0s1d1.3T 12M1.2T 0%/var /dev/acd0651M651M 0B 100%/cdrom My questiin is now, how do i test SATA RAID performance ? Is there any tools or program to do some benchmark ? please help me... regards reza I try

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beastie wrote: I try to test with dd simple command dd if=/dev/amrd0s1d of=/dev/null ^C31297+0 records in 31297+0 records out 16024064 bytes transferred in 7.970548 secs (2010409 bytes/sec) the result is very slow performance (-+ 2 Mbytes/sec), with write cache enable on drive. :( Your

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-01 Thread Beastie
Your performance sucks because, to quote the manual, Input data is read and written in 512-byte blocks. Try a sensible blocksize. 16k would mimic a standard file system block, but even that is likely to underestimate. If you were, say, copying the disk to another you could easily use

Re: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller

2006-02-28 Thread N3TW4LK3R
: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller hi, I'm running 5.4-RELEASE on a server with a Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 controller. Recently one of the drives failed, but the system kept running, which is nice. Now, however, I'm trying to replace the drive with a new

Re: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller

2006-02-28 Thread Björn König
N3TW4LK3R schrieb: The one I'm having trouble with right now only has 3 options in its BIOS: Create Array, Delete Array, Set Boot Disk. That's it :( I had a 1520 too and as far as I can remember the controller BIOS asks for rebuilding a broken array automatically on boot. Unfortunately I

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-02-28 Thread Beastie
1%/usr /dev/amrd0s1d1.3T 12M1.2T 0%/var /dev/acd0651M651M 0B 100%/cdrom My questiin is now, how do i test SATA RAID performance ? Is there any tools or program to do some benchmark ? please help me... regards reza

Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller

2006-02-27 Thread N3TW4LK3R
hi, I'm running 5.4-RELEASE on a server with a Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 controller. Recently one of the drives failed, but the system kept running, which is nice. Now, however, I'm trying to replace the drive with a new (almost identical) one: after plugging in the drive: # atacontrol status

RE: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller

2006-02-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
SATA RAID controller hi, I'm running 5.4-RELEASE on a server with a Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 controller. Recently one of the drives failed, but the system kept running, which is nice. Now, however, I'm trying to replace the drive with a new (almost identical) one: after plugging in the drive

RE: SATA Raid

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Foo Ji-Haw Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:00 AM To: bsd; Robert Uzzi Cc: Liste FreeBSD Subject: Re: SATA Raid Do note that cheap SATA raid controllers are in fact 'software' raid cards; much

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-15 Thread bsd
/megaraid/sata_150_4.html Drivers are available for FreeBSD. Le 11 févr. 06 à 04:35, Robert Uzzi a écrit : Anyone know of any of the cheaper SATA raid cards that work well under FreeBSD. I'd love to go get a 3ware but they are fairly pricey

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-15 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
Do note that cheap SATA raid controllers are in fact 'software' raid cards; much of the load is on the cpu rather than the asic. - Original Message - From: bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Uzzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Liste FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, February 15

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Uzzi
For my purposes that is fine. I and looking to build a 1T nfs server to service my dual 3G Xeon box and another Solaris box. Do note that cheap SATA raid controllers are in fact 'software' raid cards; much of the load is on the cpu rather than the asic. - Original Message - From

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-15 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
]; Robert Uzzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Liste FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:20 PM Subject: Re: SATA Raid For my purposes that is fine. I and looking to build a 1T nfs server to service my dual 3G Xeon box and another Solaris box. Do note that cheap SATA

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Uzzi
That still dosen't connedt SATA to a non sata board though. That's my situation I have 6 SATA drives but no SATA native board. Looking for a cheap addin card to build this upon. In that case maybe you want to consider software raid on freebsd. It's dead easy to install and configure.

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-15 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Feb 15, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Robert Uzzi wrote: That still dosen't connedt SATA to a non sata board though. That's my situation I have 6 SATA drives but no SATA native board. Looking for a cheap addin card to build this upon. define cheap LSI MegaRaid SATA-150 6 (or some comination of those

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-15 Thread Beastie
Robert Uzzi wrote: That still dosen't connedt SATA to a non sata board though. That's my situation I have 6 SATA drives but no SATA native board. Looking for a cheap addin card to build this upon. I'll buy Intel SRCS16 (500$) this week, will talk to u later about it's compatibility and

Re: IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller

2006-02-14 Thread Beastie
, 2006 3:51 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller Dear List.. Is there any compatibility issue regarding IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller with FreeBSD-6.0 Stable ? I'm planning to buy one, but first, ask for experience user in this list for it's

RE: IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller

2006-02-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
this metadata format. I think also both ethernet controllers on this motherboard are supported. I can tell you from experience that the Intel SE7210TP1-E motherboard works, but it uses the Intel Pro/1000 ethernet chip and the Intel 6300 ESB sata raid controller. at worst you might have to e-mail Soren

IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller

2006-02-13 Thread Beastie
Dear List.. Is there any compatibility issue regarding IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller with FreeBSD-6.0 Stable ? I'm planning to buy one, but first, ask for experience user in this list for it's compatibility and performance. Please enlight me. regards reza

RE: IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller

2006-02-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Please supply the motherboard model number you are looking at. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beastie Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:51 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IntelSRCS16 SATA RAID Controller Dear List

RE: SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Uzzi Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 7:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SATA Raid Anyone know of any of the cheaper SATA raid cards that work well under FreeBSD. I'd love to go get a 3ware but they are fairly

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Derek Ragona
Be wary of any of the cheaper SATA RAID using si chips, there have been many problems noted you will find searching this list and the list for current. I had a lot of problems with an adaptec card that used one of those chips. Most of the cheaper cards just employ software raid, which

RE: SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Raid Be wary of any of the cheaper SATA RAID using si chips, there have been many problems noted you will find searching this list and the list for current. I had a lot of problems with an adaptec card that used one of those chips. Most of the cheaper cards just employ

RE: SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Uzzi
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Uzzi Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 7:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SATA Raid Anyone know of any of the cheaper SATA raid cards that work well under FreeBSD. I'd love to go get a 3ware but they are fairly pricey

RE: SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
rid of one of these items and your being reasonable. If you want redundancy and cheap, and add-in card, then get a udma 133 card and discounted disk drives. If you want redundancy and cheap and SATA then replace your motherboard with one that has a SATA raid chipset on it and these existing SATA

SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Uzzi
Anyone know of any of the cheaper SATA raid cards that work well under FreeBSD. I'd love to go get a 3ware but they are fairly pricey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

2610SA sata raid array ... backported yet ? driver update package ?

2005-11-11 Thread user
I would like to use an adaptec 2610SA SATA raid controller with FreeBSD 5.4. My research: http://lists.ooz.net/freebsd-hackers/?mid=19018 shows that aac_pci.c has this in it for 6.0, and there were some plans to backport it to 5.4 with a driver update ? Does anyone know the status

Re: 2610SA sata raid array ... backported yet ? driver update package ?

2005-11-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:56 PM, user wrote: I would like to use an adaptec 2610SA SATA raid controller with FreeBSD 5.4. My research: http://lists.ooz.net/freebsd-hackers/?mid=19018 shows that aac_pci.c has this in it for 6.0, and there were some plans to backport it to 5.4

onboard sata raid freebsd 5.4 need help

2005-09-09 Thread jstarng
I have the OS installed on an IDE and i want to add two drives for RAID-0 striping (1 large drive). They are two 200GB maxtor SATA HDD's i plugged them in, and used the bios utility to create the array. when i start Freebsd i can see the MB's onboard controller listed in dmesg as: atapci0

Re: onboard sata raid freebsd 5.4 need help

2005-09-09 Thread jstarng
*mans atacontrol then types: atacontrol RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 wowwy... ... now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can do in fstab or something to have it start the raid automatically? On 9/9/05, jstarng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the OS installed on an IDE

Re: onboard sata raid freebsd 5.4 need help

2005-09-09 Thread jstarng
atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 ..rather On 9/9/05, jstarng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *mans atacontrol then types: atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 wowwy... ... now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can do in fstab or something to have it

Confused about SATA Raid

2005-08-18 Thread Sulejmen Mehmedagic
I am not sure if you are still having this problem, but maybe somebody else will be able to use the following: I am using SuperMicro server with Intel ICH5 SATA 150 controller and FreeBSD 5.4. As far as I could tell, the trick with SATA RAID is to disable/delete RAID in the Intel (after-BIOS

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