On Thu, 18-Mar-2010 at 09:37:32 +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote:
Hi,
We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of
harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran
into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we
Thanks for all your feedback.
The problem occurs in the RAID controller BIOS (before we even boot or get
to the OS install).
Thanks to John for confirming these cards do work above 2TB. I will look
into upgrading the firmware (on these brand new cards). Perhaps it's just
the current firmware
On Thu, March 18, 2010 8:37 am, Andy Wodfer wrote:
Hi,
We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB
of
harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we
ran
into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote:
Is ZFS not an option?
I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system
and it works great, but here the requirement is RAID5, hotswap, hotspare and
so on.
Cheers,
Andreas
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On 18.03.2010 10:35, Andy Wodfer wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote:
Is ZFS not an option?
I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system
and it works great, but
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote:
Hi,
We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of
harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran
into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we
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On 18/03/2010 10:09:55, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote:
Hi,
We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of
harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives).
Hi
and what about Areca? Natively supported via arcmsr driver.
For SATA II
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm
(ARC-1230, ARC-1260)
or
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm
On one installation I have successfully set up RAID5
with 8x 1TB SATA II drives on ARC-1220, approx 6.5TB
At 04:37 AM 3/18/2010, Andy Wodfer wrote:
Hi,
We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of
harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran
into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we
couldn't create a
On Thursday 18 March 2010 03:37:32 Andy Wodfer wrote:
Hi,
We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB
of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night
we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML)
because we
Pieter Donche wrote:
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a
hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration,
To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive.
If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra
disk, the hardware RAID controller
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a
hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration,
To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive.
what is RAID5 of RAID6???
RAID5 or RAID6 (sorry, typing error)
If you
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:35:39AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a
hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration,
To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive.
what is
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a
hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration,
what is RAID5 of RAID6???
To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive.
If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra
disk, the hardware RAID
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a
hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration,
what is RAID5 of RAID6???
'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people.
--
Mel
Problem
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a
hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration,
what is RAID5 of RAID6???
'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people.
For Americans
Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
I'm in the process of getting a new server, and have been
planning on a Dell PowerEdge 1950.
I see from this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039675.html
That the PERC 6/i RAID controller seems to work fine with the
mfi(4) driver;
On 5/04/2007 1:52 AM, Alexander Anderson wrote:
Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:52:44 AM, Antony Mawer wrote:
I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel
Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5
using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work
Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:52:44 AM, Antony Mawer wrote:
I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel
Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5
using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work fine.
You may want to re-think that option...
Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:22:22 PM, Ivan Carey wrote:
Is there hardware support for this Motherboard Intel DG965OT Motherboard
in FreeBSD 6.2 I have read the Hardware notes but am unable to determine
if FreeBSD 6.2 is compatible with Intel DG965OT Motherboard and the on
board Martix Storage
On 4/04/2007 9:30 PM, Alexander Anderson wrote:
I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel
Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5
using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work fine.
...
ad4: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAJ at
Alexander Anderson wrote:
Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:22:22 PM, Ivan Carey wrote:
Is there hardware support for this Motherboard Intel DG965OT Motherboard
in FreeBSD 6.2 I have read the Hardware notes but am unable to determine
if FreeBSD 6.2 is compatible with Intel DG965OT Motherboard and the
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old)
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release.
I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup
both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not software.
I'm more
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old)
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release.
I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup
both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old)
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release.
I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old)
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release.
I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup
If you go SATA RAID, I've had good luck and good speed with RocketRaid 1820
cards.
P.
On Monday 12 June 2006 14:29, pete wright wrote:
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've
Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an
Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM
Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives.
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a
Just be careful on what card you choose. Aside from simply making sure
there are drivers for it, you also have to check on the little things.
Like, oh, being able to non-destructively grow the size of the RAID5
array.
I bought a Promise SX6000. I have 3 200GB drives that will be in RAID5.
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
card?
What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
card?
What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for
example, but
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I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great
luck with software mirroring and
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
There have been issues with growfs in the past; last time I looked
it hadn't been updated to handle UFS 2. If you don't need the UFS 2
functionality, you might be better off using UFS 1 if you intend to
grow the file system.
growfs gained
The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example:
Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to
the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D:
will remain 400GB. I would have to utilize a third party piece of
software to resize
On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote:
The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example:
Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB
drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB,
but Drive D: will remain 400GB. I would have to utilize a
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Subhro wrote:
On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote:
The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example:
Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to
the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D:
will remain
On Tuesday, 10 May 2005 at 16:05:50 -0500, Tony Shadwick wrote:
I've worked with RAID5 in FreeBSD in the past, with either vinum or a
hardware raid solution. Never had any problems either way.
I'm now building a server for myself at home, and I'm creating a large
volume to store video. I
On 5/11/2005 2:35, Tony Shadwick wrote:
What my concern is when I start to fill up the ~400GB of space I'm
giving myself with this set. I would like to simply insert another
200GB drive and expand the array, allowing the hardware raid to do the
work.
That is what everybody does. It is very
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:42:32PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Stijn Hoop said:
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but
didn't think too much about. That is, a software array
is no substitute
for a hardware array. ...
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From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 1:01 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: Sandy Rutherford; FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID
I explicitly stated vinum is a great
thing if what your wanting to do is use a bunch
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800,
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but
didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute
for a
On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:02 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800,
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but
didn't think too much about. That is, a
-Original Message-
From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 1:02 AM
To: Sandy Rutherford; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800,
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but
didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute
for a
Jason Lieurance wrote:
I installed everything on 'ad4' but it I think I wanted to install it to 'ar0'.
Am I
right? Thanks.
Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :)
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Mike Woods
IT Technician
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Mike Woods wrote:
Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :)
s/Atapi/ata/
Less haste, more coffee, the key to better typing.
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IT Technician
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Mike Woods said:
Jason Lieurance wrote:
I installed everything on 'ad4' but it I think I wanted to install it to
'ar0'.
Am I right? Thanks.
Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :)
--
Mike Woods
IT Technician
Why does the os even detect the
Why does the os even detect the individual drives when the raid card made it a
single drive and the os install is after the raid bios???
Because the chipset provides means to control both single disks and
arrays thus you get both, just the way that card chose to do things :)
-
Mike
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:58:59PM +, Mike Woods wrote:
Why does the os even detect the individual drives when the raid card made
it a
single drive and the os install is after the raid bios???
Because the chipset provides means to control both single disks and
arrays thus you get
At 2003-10-14T09:44:31Z, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have 4 SCSI hdds connect to this controller card. I wonder if I should
disable the softupdates feature for the FFS to make the system runs
faster.
Out of curiosity, what part of the system do you think would be faster
without
Message -
From: Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID vs softupdates
At 2003-10-14T09:44:31Z, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have 4 SCSI hdds connect to this controller card. I wonder if I should
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