From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 4 6:31:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gabriel.schoolpeople.net (gabriel.schoolpeople.net [216.34.170.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B94137B422 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 06:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from triangulata ([24.27.14.158]) by gabriel.schoolpeople.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA49478; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 08:31:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brandon@schoolpeople.net) Message-ID: <005301c01675$4575b2e0$9e0e1b18@austin.rr.com> From: "Brandon S. DeYoung" To: "Mike Tancsa" Cc: "FreeBSDHW" References: <200009031931.MAA00828@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <39b34d3e.1061514136@mail.sentex.net> Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 08:37:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Tancsa wrote: > Does it work in RAID0 ? I have had problems with RAID1 in FreeBSD, mostly > incredibly slow performance, but no errors like you are getting. > > ---Mike I haven't tried RAID 0. The only other configuration I tried was installing to a single drive (not in an array, but still connected to the 3Ware controller). That worked just fine which is why I haven't shipped the card back yet.Yes, doing newfs on a 30 GB partition takes upwards of an hour. Regards, ~Brandon ...It don't mean a thing If you cain't get that ping... Brandon S. DeYoung Senior Engineer SchoolPeople brandon@schoolpeople.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Tancsa" To: ""Brandon DeYoung"" Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 2:21 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 > On 3 Sep 2000 18:21:22 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > > > > >I used 3Ware's bios utility to set up a RAID 1 array with two 30.6 GB > >Seagate hard drives. > >When booting 3Ware's bios displays the following message: > > > >Array Unit 0 - Mirror 30.6 GB INIT Array (after F8) > > Port 0 - ST330630A 30.6 GB > > Port 1 - ST330630A 30.6 GB > > Does it work in RAID0 ? I have had problems with RAID1 in FreeBSD, mostly > incredibly slow performance, but no errors like you are getting. > > ---Mike > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > Sentex Communications Corp, > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message