From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 27 6:47: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from fw.nextra.de (unknown [212.169.185.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4763A37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from O.Blasnik@nextra.de) Received: by fw.nextra.de; id PAA17306; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:47:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from unknown(10.49.96.2) by smtp1.fw.nextra.de via smap (V5.5) id xma017263; Fri, 27 Jul 01 15:47:00 +0200 Received: from omnilinkw63 ([10.49.96.101]) by f-ex-01.intern.nextra.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.1600); Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:45:21 +0100 Message-ID: <02e201c116a1$ec09de60$6560310a@intern.nextra.de> From: "Oliver Blasnik" To: "Dave" , "Barry Irwin" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Gigabyte GS-SR101 and GS-SR102 1U rackmount... Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:42:04 +0200 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jul 2001 14:45:21.0748 (UTC) FILETIME=[C3277940:01C116AA] Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi again, Dave with some questions ;) > >hardware cooled. Btw, I can _not_ recommend the 101 as far as the > >IDE-Raid is a software-only solution and the FreeBSD-Drivers still > >don't support this correctly (ex: if one drive fails in a two-mirrored- > >driveset, the system is going to hang). > > So the IDE raid is useless for RAID 1(mirror) applications, but performs RAID > 0(striping) adequately? This is correct. > Any idea on when/if the IDE raid for FreeBSD 4.x will be resolved to avoid this > lockup problem? (really another thread) I asked for it (check the archive for that *g*), and the reply was sth like "use hardware for that". I think this features won't be available in near future. > Assume that the onboard SCSI320 interface in the 103 can/will support RAID 1 in > FBSD4.x configuration? No. Just a "simple" Adaptec SCSI-Controller. But I have in mind that Katrina (from Gigabyte) told about an addon-Module from Adaptec to perform HW-Raid. Not sure about. The mainboard-specs are still changing from one week to the next. > Dial question about construction... assuming we can pick these up > barebones and insert our own CPU/Mem/HDD into the barebones solution > without much problem? Any pitfalls with that? This is a way to go. This is the way I got the system up, as far as the engineering samples are "empty" barebones, without cpu, ram, hdd. > Thanks for the feedback, and would love to hear your impression of the 103 > performance when you do get ahold of it. It hopefully will perform as I dream of *g*. If there's no Raid-Plugin available, I'll check it with a Raid Adapter - 3 Hotswap SCSI HDD's have to be used this way ;) > Dave Cu, Oliver -- -- http://www.nextra.de - INTERNET@WORK ----- oliver.blasnik@nextra.de -- Nextra Deutschland | Oliver Blasnik Senior System Administrator GmbH & Co KG | Lyoner Strasse 26 D-60528 Frankfurt Engineering TA&S | tel +49-69-66441-0 fax +49-69-66441-199 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message