From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 17:47:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7167916A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:47:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from mail.dc-servers.com (mail.dc-servers.com [83.243.101.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF5A943D49 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:47:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: (qmail 14401 invoked by uid 399); 24 Feb 2006 17:47:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alfie.jigsawhq.com) (work@ashleymoran.me.uk@213.106.224.113) by mail.dc-servers.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2006 17:47:03 -0000 From: Ashley Moran Organization: Codeweavers Ltd To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:45:37 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602241129.02374.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> <20060224094910.5c51d1bd.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <20060224094910.5c51d1bd.kgunders@teamcool.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602241745.37259.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Subject: Re: RAID on Tyan Tomcat K8E X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:47:01 -0000 On Friday 24 February 2006 16:49, Ken Gunderson wrote: > I have a couple of these systems. =A0Why would you want to use the POS > onboard RAID to set up a mirror when there's gmirror;-) Do you really think so little of on-board RAID? Is it that board in=20 particular, or on-board RAID in general? I feel safer somehow with anythin= g=20 hardware based as opposed to pure software solutions. Maybe my faith is=20 misplaced... I have to admit I had spontaneous disk corruption recently on a server usin= g=20 motherboard RAID on an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (Athlon64 but in i386 mode). = =20 The disks appear to be fine so it looks like the RAID controller went posta= l. =20 I've replaced the board with an Asus A8V Deluxe (which also helps as it run= s=20 in amd64 mode) and the RAID seems fine now but I'll be watching it closely. We're just about to order a batch of new servers and I was asking if the RA= ID=20 works on the K8E to save us =A3100 or so. But network admin lad next to me= =20 says he wouldn't risk it and we're better with the 3ware 8006-2 card so we= =20 will probably go with that. No chances on the database servers though: ARC-1120s RAID-6 in each :D Ashley