Re: boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

2007-10-26 Thread Mark Moellering
On Thursday 25 October 2007 8:38 am, William Bulley wrote: > I have two IDE drives (ad0 and ad1) on a Dell system > that is running Windows XP on ad0 and FreeBSD 6.2 on > ad1. Drive ad0 is 80 GB. Drive ad1 is 250 GB. When I > installed FreeBSD onto ad1, I installed the FreeBSD bo

boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

2007-10-25 Thread William Bulley
I have two IDE drives (ad0 and ad1) on a Dell system that is running Windows XP on ad0 and FreeBSD 6.2 on ad1. Drive ad0 is 80 GB. Drive ad1 is 250 GB. When I installed FreeBSD onto ad1, I installed the FreeBSD boot manager onto both ad0 and ad1 disk drives. When the machine powers up from a

FreeBSD 6.x problems with IDE drives

2006-05-13 Thread Javier Henderson
Greetings, I've a motherboard and disk drive that have been running on older versions of FreeBSD for quite a while, reliably. Recently, I moved to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (and lately to 6.1-RELEASE, but it didn't help), and the system periodically shows: > ad4: FAILURE - device detached This is like

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-30 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 30, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/27/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Brett Glass wrote: At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: Highpoint RocketRAID: 1640: 4xSATA,PCI 32bit, 33MHz 1810A: 4xSATA

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/27/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > > > At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > >> Highpoint RocketRAID: > >> 1640: 4xSATA,PCI 32bit, 33MHz > >> 1810A: 4xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Brett Glass wrote: At 06:48 PM 6/27/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software This server will be mirroring, so we wouldn't need XOR. It'd be a big plus for RAID 5, though. I don't know about the Hi

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-27 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:48 PM 6/27/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software This server will be mirroring, so we wouldn't need XOR. It'd be a big plus for RAID 5, though. --Brett ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Brett Glass wrote: At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: Highpoint RocketRAID: 1640: 4xSATA,PCI 32bit, 33MHz 1810A: 4xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz 1820A: 8xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz 2220: 8xSATA-II, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz Wi

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-27 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: >Highpoint RocketRAID: >1640: 4xSATA,PCI 32bit, 33MHz >1810A: 4xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >1820A: 8xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >2220: 8xSATA-II, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz > >With the exception of the 2220 all of the other

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/26/05, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:53:47PM +0200, Björn König wrote: > > > Even most cheap ATA chipsets have hot-swap capabilities. > > I didn't know hot swap was possible with software raid! > > How can I tell if the ATA chipset on my system

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:53:47PM +0200, Björn König wrote: > Even most cheap ATA chipsets have hot-swap capabilities. I didn't know hot swap was possible with software raid! How can I tell if the ATA chipset on my system has hot-swap capability? m

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:28:35PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Nonetheless, the Web page is intriguing. Will the GEOM RAID subsystem really > allow the machine to run and/or boot from either drive? It worked for me. I unplugged each drive and rebooted after setting up gmirror following that ho

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/26/05, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of > mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this > purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID > functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability.

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mike Maltese
Brett Glass wrote: I have heard (though I have no direct experience with it) that the 3Ware controllers bog the system down terribly when re-mirroring. Also, these controllers are probably optimized for RAID 5 rather than simple mirroring. Do you know if Promise or Adaptec has something that just

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:53 PM 6/26/2005, Björn König wrote: >You don't need an additional controller necessarily, because you can set up a >RAID 1 with two single ATA hard disks. You'll find a small how-to at [1]. Even >most cheap ATA chipsets have hot-swap capabilities. > >[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirr

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Björn König
Brett Glass wrote: I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability. A system that could re-mirror a repla

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:39 PM 6/26/2005, Mike Maltese wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: >>I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of >>mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this >>purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID >>functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot sw

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mike Maltese
Brett Glass wrote: I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability. A system that could re-mirror a replac

Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Brett Glass
I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability. A system that could re-mirror a replacement drive with mini

IDE Drives

2003-10-23 Thread David Bergerson
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7 box. It has a promise raid card supporting two drives in a mirrored config. It has two drives on the IDE bus. I had to physically move the motherboard to a different case. In the old case config, the drives were connected to a ATA card to get over the 137g limit and

Re: USB or Firewire IDE drives

2003-02-06 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has tried IDE drives connected via USB2.0 > or Firewire under 4.x or 5.x. Any information, even just a "no this > one doesn't work" would be greatly appreciated. Well, I have a USB 1.

RE: USB or Firewire IDE drives

2003-02-05 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has tried IDE drives connected via USB2.0 > or Firewire under 4.x or 5.x. Any information, even just a "no this AFAIK USB2.0 isn't supported. But I'm very satisfied wit a noname USB2/Firewire case for a 2.5" disk. It&#

USB or Firewire IDE drives

2003-02-05 Thread lwh
I was wondering if anyone has tried IDE drives connected via USB2.0 or Firewire under 4.x or 5.x. Any information, even just a "no this one doesn't work" would be greatly appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message