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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:35:24 +0400
From:      "Eugeny Kuzakov" <coredumped@coredumped.org.ru>
To:        "Igor Robul" <igorr@speechpro.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: chipest real hardware raid for FreeBSD&Windows XP
Message-ID:  <146805bd0608011135r2be2ad30j30af78f861506eea@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060729125814.GB9478@sysadm.stc>
References:  <146805bd0607100212o70f5b843ocdadead8d178f931@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20060710062547.025a0478@mail.computinginnovations.com> <146805bd0607111038t7eb386efnec0ff176aab22cfd@mail.gmail.com> <20060729125814.GB9478@sysadm.stc>

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On 7/29/06, Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> wrote:

Hi, Igor&All.

> > On 7/10/06, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote:
> > Firstly I asked chipest HARDWARE raid.... MB doesn't has contained
> hardware
> Why dont you wish use geom_mirror if 3Ware card is expensive for you?

Because I hoped buy (at least not true hardware) raid adapter on which I can
create some logical device(fat32 contained more than 100Gb of  mp3's&films),
which  will clear visible under windows xp and FreeBSD. My girl prefers
windows, I -- FreeBSD:) But each other of us likes music:)

My summary:
 - true hardware raids like 3ware is expensive for me for home.
 - external software raid or simple sataII/sata300 controllers have same
problem:
     there are no stable drivers for FreeBSD

I have played w/ sil3112(wow!!!!:)) and Promise...:(

At the moment I playing w/ Promise SATAII TX2plus(it's just controller
card)...
I have setuped gmirror.
But driver has stability problem. (I have tried 6.1-stable, today I upgraded
my home box to -current).
Sometimes I see setfeatures messages warnings and i/o stops on disks,
connected to promise controller.
I will investigate it then send bugreports to hardware@....

Thank you.

-- 
Best wishes, Coredumped.



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