From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 21:14: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53A937B406 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5M4PZw05064; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106220425.f5M4PZw05064@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: Scott Gerhardt , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Controllers In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:06:57 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:25:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (a few 3ware questions) > > Speaking of the 3ware cards, can one use the 4-port card with only > two drives ? or the 8-port with only 2 drives ? Yes, you don't have to fully-populate the cards. > The reason I ask is I have two 30-gig drives still in the boxes, > one Maxtor, one Western Digital and wanted to invest in a 4 port > 3ware card. I don't know whether to buy two more 30-gig Maxtor or > two more 30-gig Western Digital drives to make a set of four. The Maxtors are *much* better drives. Don't mix drive types unless you absolutely have to; the optimisation that the 3ware controller performs will be largely defeated by this. > Documentation for setting this up, is it available for both > FreeBSD and Linux ? Setup for these controllers is OS-neutral; you do it with the BIOS. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message