From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 12 13:32:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (c228380-a.sfmissn1.sfba.home.com [24.20.90.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E86637B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eACLci600634; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:38:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011122138.eACLci600634@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Sven Hazejager Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:20:46 +0100." <3A0EDF7E.ECA0310A@chain.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:38:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm going to install a new FreeBSD server and I'm looking into an > Ultra-ATA 100 RAID solution. You should be more worried about functionality than buzzword-compliance. ATA-100 isn't really all that important in the scheme of things here. > So far, my searches on Dejanews seem to > indicate that there are some problems with either installing FreeBSD, or > booting FreeBSD from a RAID volume. I would like to configure two hard > drives in a mirror (RAID1) config, and install and run the latest > FreeBSD-STABLE on it. I'm considering either the Abit Hot Rod 100 or the > Promise Fasttrack 100 RAID PCI cards. Does anyone have experience with > either of those? Yeah. They're not "RAID controllers" as such, they just have BIOS support for striped and mirrored configurations. If you expect the mirror to work like a "real" mirror, right now your best bet is going to be one of the 3ware cards; I'd expect that someone will improve the intelligence in the ATA RAID code at some point, but right now it's way too raw (IMO) for production use. -- ... 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-stable" in the body of the message