Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-12 Thread Marco Peereboom
It's in the email that was linked. Read it. On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:35:25AM +1100, Ioan Nemes wrote: C. Bensend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/2006 10:00:13 am Wrong. When you set the machine up (or using bioctl) you label a drive as a hot spare. When a failure happens, it automatically

Re: OT: server quality hardware; was: Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Cappuccio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What motherboards are folks using that support these (64 bit) PCI slots? Most consumer grade x86 motherboards only have 32-bit PCI slots. I've seen very few motherboards (at least at newegg) that have 64-bit PCI, and they're very expensive.

RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread tsmullins
I have the oppurtunity to order some RAID controllers for my older OpenBSD boxes. Our newer machines use the Dell PERC controllers. Could you please recommend some RAID cards for OpenBSD? I know which ones are supported, just looking for some preferred cards. I have not used any of the SATA,

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Bryan Irvine
On 1/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the oppurtunity to order some RAID controllers for my older OpenBSD boxes. Our newer machines use the Dell PERC controllers. Could you please recommend some RAID cards for OpenBSD? I know which ones are supported, just looking

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread John R. Shannon
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the oppurtunity to order some RAID controllers for my older OpenBSD boxes. Our newer machines use the Dell PERC controllers. Could you please recommend some RAID cards for OpenBSD? I know which ones are supported, just

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Hannan
LSI Logic Megaraid cards (SATA/SCSI). work like a champ. If I'm not mistaken LSI is currently the only cooperative RAID controller vendor. Read mailing list archives. -Tico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the oppurtunity to order some RAID controllers for my older OpenBSD boxes. Our newer

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Razmus
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060111 15:20]: I have the oppurtunity to order some RAID controllers for my older OpenBSD boxes. Our newer machines use the Dell PERC controllers. Could you please recommend some RAID cards for OpenBSD? I know which ones are supported, just looking for

Re: RAID card recommendations - Thanks for the responses

2006-01-11 Thread tsmullins
I will stick to the LSI cards. This is exactly the info I needed. Shane - Original Message - From: Thomas Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:26 PM Subject: Re: RAID card recommendations LSI Logic Megaraid cards (SATA/SCSI). work like

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Jon Simola
On 1/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not used any of the SATA, but would consider that an option. I've got a couple of the LSI 300-8X SATA cards. They certainly perform wonderfully and at a good pricepoint. I had run into a problem on SMP AMD64 with ccb timeouts locking

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread C. Bensend
I've got a couple of the LSI 300-8X SATA cards. They certainly perform wonderfully and at a good pricepoint. I had run into a problem on SMP AMD64 with ccb timeouts locking up the box, which is doing some heavy NFS and DB. Upgrading the firmware seems to have cleared that up (knock on wood).

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
I've got a couple of the LSI 300-8X SATA cards. They certainly perform wonderfully and at a good pricepoint. I had run into a problem on SMP AMD64 with ccb timeouts locking up the box, which is doing some heavy NFS and DB. Upgrading the firmware seems to have cleared that up (knock on

OT: server quality hardware; was: Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread matthew . garman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:19:12PM -0500, Jim Razmus wrote: I have already replaced two Adaptec controllers with LSI Logic MEGARAID SATA 150-6 cards. I then added a call to bioctl in These LSI Megaraid cards are 64-bit PCI, right? Do they have a PCI Express version? What motherboards are

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread C. Bensend
Wrong. When you set the machine up (or using bioctl) you label a drive as a hot spare. When a failure happens, it automatically takes that drive over and does a rebuild. Shut down? You don't get it. We wrote all this code because we were tired of shutting down and doing the repairs in

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
No, I understand that just fine. I should have been more specific - if I have a failure, it does its thing, great. But, I'd want to replace the failed drive so I'd have a hot spare again. That's the part I was asking about - you'd have to shutdown to replace that failed drive when it's

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Bryan Irvine
On 1/11/06, C. Bensend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong. When you set the machine up (or using bioctl) you label a drive as a hot spare. When a failure happens, it automatically takes that drive over and does a rebuild. Shut down? You don't get it. We wrote all this code because we

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Ioan Nemes
C. Bensend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/2006 10:00:13 am Wrong. When you set the machine up (or using bioctl) you label a drive as a hot spare. When a failure happens, it automatically takes that drive over and does a rebuild. Shut down? You don't get it. We wrote all this code because we

Re: RAID card recommendations - Thanks for the responses

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
LSI Logic Megaraid cards (SATA/SCSI). work like a champ. If I'm not mistaken LSI is currently the only cooperative RAID controller vendor. Read mailing list archives. One thing for sure. Anytime we have to buy hardware, what ever that might be, when ever possible we should stick with vendor

Re: RAID card recommendations

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
C. Bensend wrote: I've heard nothing but good about these cards, but I have heard hardly anything about recovery and rebuild. I'm assuming you need to shut down, plug in the new drive, and go... How quick is the rebuild (subject to drive size of course)? This was announce, explain and