Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:49:30 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Glover <tomg@egg.net> To: David McNett <nugget@slacker.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SX6000 controller Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0402051248470.14155@enema.egg.net> In-Reply-To: <20040205162617.GA4275@slacker.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401160732440.63061@enema.egg.net> <20040205162617.GA4275@slacker.com>
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, David McNett wrote: > 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. Which 3ware card are you using? And do you boot from it? > > -- > ________________________________________________________________________ > |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/| > -- Tom Glover
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