RE: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: I tried following the instructions at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work. I ended up installing a

Re: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-16 Thread Danny Howard
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:52:46PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: Is your solution better? You can deliver your own opinion, my resolution is at: http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ I was able to make the atacontrol method work flawlessly via a simulated

Re: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 compatible with any of the adpatec or

RE: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty

Re: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: RAID1. I'm looking into gmirror, but it seems like it might be messy if one of the drives dies. What makes you say that? I have gmirror running and I simulated drive failures on both controllers, and reconstructed the provider

Re: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 compatible with any of the adpatec

RE: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty

Re: $100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: I tried following the instructions at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work. I ended up installing a minimal installation on one disk, reooting to the new install, doing atacontrol create RAID1 ad4