Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:17:38 -0500 From: Tim <tim@futuresouth.com> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> Cc: Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID Controller Message-ID: <20010823161738.B84581@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <003c01c12c0b$1cf58780$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:37:58PM -0700 References: <200108231845.f7NIjtUM001102@ns1.avatar.com> <003c01c12c0b$1cf58780$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:37:58PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > After talking to their tech support this morning, I think I'm not going to > use this controller mostly because it looks like a SCSI controller to the > system, even though the drives are IDE. This means that the system won't > boot since the filesystem names will be different. If I hadn't installed > FBSD yet, I would definitely use 3ware. This is a production server and I > can't afford to have it down for more than a couple of hours to get things > running. Huh? Why won't it boot? > I may go ahead with the ARCO. It is a total transparent RAID controller that > sits in between your IDE controller and the drive. The only down side to it > is that it does not provide any performance improvements like the other two > controllers do. The last time I looked, ARCO requires a floppy/DOS program to rebuild failed drives. That will significantly add to your down time. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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