From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 11 14:28:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA20565 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA20542 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA27003 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG); Thu, 11 Dec 1997 23:27:27 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id WAA09859; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:08:10 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199712112108.WAA09859@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: RAID on FreeBSD To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:08:09 +0100 (MET) Cc: walcaraz@indy3.gstone.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Dec 11, 97 10:45:43 am X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom wrote... > > On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Walter .S. Alcaraz wrote: > > > I plan on purchasing FreeBSD 2.2.5 and installing it on a Pentium 200 or > > Pentium II 233 with 32 MB RAM. I want to run it as an NFS server with 32 GB > > storage and a 100-mbit Fast Ethernet card, running with a RAID Ultra-Wide SCSI > > controller. The setup I want to use is 9 4 GB Ultra-Wide SCSI drives, with a > > RAID controller doing RAID level 5. My question is, which RAID SCSI controller > > does FreeBSD support and what one works the best? > > The DPT PM334UW works well, but you need to install the driver yourself. > This card supports up to 64MB cache, and you can add additional channels > to it via a daughtercard (up to 3 UW channels in total). You will > probably want at least two channels. > > 9 drives in an uncomfortable number for RAID5. Probably better to go Why would 9 drives be uncomfartable? > with 10 drives instead, and make two 5 drive arrays. > > Tom _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ---------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net]BSD Unix ------