From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 08:29:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0294216A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 08:29:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dazed.slacker.com (dazed.slacker.com [68.93.27.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE05F43D66 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 08:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nugget@slacker.com) Received: (qmail 6996 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Feb 2004 16:26:17 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:26:17 -0600 From: David McNett To: Tom Glover Message-ID: <20040205162617.GA4275@slacker.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SX6000 controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:29:39 -0000 On 05-Feb-2004, Tom Glover wrote: > Some questions on the Promise Supertrak SX6000 before I go and spend money > on it .... I haven't worked with the SX6000 specifically, but in my testing I found the Promise and the Highpoint cards to be erratic during drive failures. The data was safe but it was not difficult to induce a system lockup by disabling one of the drives in a raid1 configuration. I went with a 3ware card (hypermicro.com is a good vendor) which I found to be nearly bulletproof. -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Austin, TX USA |PGP/GPG DH 0xE43C5FC3 http://www.slacker.com/~nugget/|