Re: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

- Original Message - From: "Philippe Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:46 AM Subject: RE: ICH5R,

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

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

Re: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

- Original Message - From: "Philippe Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:32 AM Subject: RE: ICH5R,

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

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 >

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

>-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: &

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

[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 - reb

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

[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 y

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

[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 >> sp

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

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 sma

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

> 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

RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

[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

Re: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

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 w