Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:57:51 +0100 From: Jean-Mark Dupoux <jeanm@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> To: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID systems Message-ID: <380E8F3E.AE27A1F2@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910202153290.68656-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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sorry, I am still a newbie so cant answer the main part of this question, but for lower-priced RAID cards, I know that "Promise" now have a range starting at below $200. Jaime Kikpole wrote: > I've been wrestling with a Netfinity 5000 and a DPT SmartCache IV > for a few weeks now and am near giving up. Yesterday I thought that I had > a break through, but I may have been wrong. Specifically, I could boot > from an external hard drive and then FreeBSD could see the SmartCache's > RAID-5 array. (This was on a minimal install with the default > partitioning given by the disk label editor.) Once I saw that, I > installed a full OS with custom partitioning (/var was big, /var/log and > /tmp were added, etc.). Now it won't boot anymore. > > Does anyone have a guess as to why it wouldn't boot with a more > fine-tuned disk label? BootEasy was claiming that there was no > /boot/loader or /kernel. Also, once I restarted, I couldn't figure out > what settings to put in the SmartCache's BIOS in order to make it post the > array as a "drive" instead of a "disk". I'm not sure if I ever managed to > boot from the external SCSI hard drive and have the SmartCache array > posting as a drive, to be honest. But their tech support line said that > it would be necessary. > > While I'm asking, can anyone suggest a decent, affordable (under > $4000, preferably under $2000) RAID-5 system that connects to a SCSI port? > I have a Compaq desktop computer acting as the mail/web/DNS/DHCP/etc. > server for my job's at the moment and would like to see it have some > redundancy. (Its running on an IDE hard drive right now. Do _that_ on > NT! *grin*) I'm guessing that the easiest way to improve that system is > to add a SCSI card and plug a RAID-5 external system into that card. Does > that sound reasonable? > > Thanks in advance, > Jaime > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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