Re: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Philippe Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:32 AM Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? Ted

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-23 Thread Philippe Lang
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi, I'm sure there are solutions to make things work, but personnaly, I don't feel confortable with a RAID system that acts that way, and that is supposed to make the whole system more robust and problem-free. Your missing the point. If a disk crashes it

Re: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Philippe Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:46 AM Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? Ted Mittelstaedt

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-21 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My conclusion, if you need something stable, don't use the onboard raid, get a RAID card even the cheap ones will do better job!! Hi, Thanks for the confirmation the onboard controller is not the way to go... What reliable and good raid controller would you

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-21 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wasn't as lucky as Doug with my ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board, both with the ICH5R and Promise RAID controller. 1) With the Promise controller, after simulating a disk problem (shutdown - disk disconnection - reboot - shutdown - disk reconnection - reboot), I

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philippe Lang Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:39 AM To: Doug Poland Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:05AM

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-21 Thread Philippe Lang
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:05AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server. The motherboards are: - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R and Promise PDC20378 - ASUS P5WD2, with ICH7R I intend to install FreeBSD

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-20 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:05AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server. The motherboards are: - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R and Promise PDC20378 - ASUS P5WD2, with ICH7R I intend to install FreeBSD

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-20 Thread Tamouh H.
1) With the Promise controller, after simulating a disk problem (shutdown - disk disconnection - reboot - shutdown - disk reconnection - reboot), I wasn't able to rebuild the array at all, either with atacontrol rebuild ar0 or from the bios. I suspect a spare disk is necessary for a

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Not the promise. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philippe Lang Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 1:18 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? Hi, I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-20 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) With the Promise controller, after simulating a disk problem (shutdown - disk disconnection - reboot - shutdown - disk reconnection - reboot), I wasn't able to rebuild the array at all, either with atacontrol rebuild ar0 or from the bios. I suspect a spare disk is

ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-19 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server. The motherboards are: - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R and Promise PDC20378 - ASUS P5WD2, with ICH7R I intend to install FreeBSD 6.1, and I wonder which chipset you would recommend me for RAID 1? I need something rock-solid, of

Re: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:05AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server. The motherboards are: - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R and Promise PDC20378 - ASUS P5WD2, with ICH7R I intend to install FreeBSD 6.1, and I wonder which