Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-06 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 5. März 2005 02:06 schrieb David Magda: On Mar 3, 2005, at 19:20, Emanuel Strobl wrote: If you consider upgrading to 5.4 you can use any onboard chipset or cheap controller card with some geomclasses, namely g_mirror. It's fantastic and the only stateful mirror solution I

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-04 Thread David Magda
On Mar 3, 2005, at 19:20, Emanuel Strobl wrote: If you consider upgrading to 5.4 you can use any onboard chipset or cheap controller card with some geomclasses, namely g_mirror. It's fantastic and the only stateful mirror solution I know. And you can mirror only parts of your disk, or mirror

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Artem Kuchin
pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? It is to be installed on a very old motherboard

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Gerald de la Pascua
we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards, I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance, in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a similar price to two disks to plug into them. When a disk fails you would willingly pay many times this

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Artem Kuchin
Gerald de la Pascua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards, I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance, in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a similar price to two disks to plug into them. When a disk fails

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:13 +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Dominic Marks
Artem Kuchin said: pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? It is to be installed on

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Pertti Kosunen
Artem Kuchin wrote: Well, i don't trust software raids. But 3ware is probably one of the most expensive raid 0,1 controllers. There must be something around 40$ which freebsd supports. Does anyone known any model? Those cheap hardware raid 0,1 controllers are all really software raids. Driver

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:10:00AM +, Gerald de la Pascua wrote: we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards, I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance, in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a similar price to two disks to plug into

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:49:53AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I've been using a cheapo Promise controller in a RAID 1+0 for years, literally. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:19:0: class=0x010485 card=0x4d68105a chip=0x6269105a rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' device

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Gerald de la Pascua
Brian, I am interested in your experiences with the promise raid card, what driver does it use? ( we use the 3ware with the twe ) is there management software to monitor it like the 3ware? can you set it up to email you on a disk failure, are there comand line tools from unix to monitor

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:44:31PM +, Gerald de la Pascua wrote: Brian, I am interested in your experiences with the promise raid card, what driver does it use? ( we use the 3ware with the twe ) Under 4.9-RELEASE, it works with the ata(4) driver: Promise Ultra/Fasttrak-33

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 10:23 schrieb Artem Kuchin: Gerald de la Pascua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards, I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance, in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-02 Thread pete wright
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB IDE driver