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Date:      Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:07:21 +0200 (SAST)
From:      Irvine Short <irvine@sanbi.ac.za>
To:        Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE RAID controllers
Message-ID:  <20031003090633.X40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <86n0cj1oba.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
References:  <20031001164314.Q40455@fling.sanbi.ac.za> <86n0cj1oba.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>

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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Chris Shenton wrote:

> I got a DELL 600SC "server" a while back, not expensive, came with a
> DELL "CERC"-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI
> controller card.

thanks Chris and other who replied!

Much appreciated.

Cheers,

Irvine



 I've been running them as a couple RAID-5 volumes
> under FreeBSD-5.x.  Do a search on the lists for CERC and you should
> find my other postings on this.
>
> I had some problems with drives failing but it appears it was an early
> run of flakey WD1200JB 120GB drives, not the controller.
>
> I haven't tried hot swapping or other stuff, but that's not why I
> bought it.
>


Irvine Short

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