Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:20:08 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Oliver Blasnik <ob@omnilink.net>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Again: CRD-Raid-Controller and FreeBSD 3.x Message-ID: <199912140620.WAA08612@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:21:22 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912132009540.150-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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> >On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Oliver Blasnik wrote: > >> It has to be external for different reasons. We do not only have >> FreeBSD, there's also Solaris and WinNT. Connecting an external system >> enables transparency. Some CRD's are connected to two machines, >... > > If you want to go with standalone RAID, use Infortrend over CRD. First >of all, you can up to 256 tags per host, and they can still do everything >CRD does. Overall the Infortrend firmware is quite good. ...unless you use the battery backup, in which case the Infortrend gets stuck in an infinite crash/restart loop on powerup if there are dirty buffers in the cache. A show stopper for us, which is why we're still using the CMD. The Infortrend also has some strange performance anolomies which result in very poor performance in some cases. Repeated calls into their tech support over the past 3 weeks have so far gotten us nowhere. If you or anyone else here would like to go with the Infortrend, let me know - I have two IFT-3102U2G controllers (w/IFT-9070B battery backup modules) sitting on the shelf that I'd be happy to sell at below cost. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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