Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:38:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Sven Hazejager <sven@chain.demon.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE RAID? Message-ID: <200011122138.eACLci600634@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:20:46 %2B0100." <3A0EDF7E.ECA0310A@chain.demon.nl>
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> I'm going to install a new FreeBSD server and I'm looking into an
> Ultra-ATA 100 RAID solution.
You should be more worried about functionality than buzzword-compliance.
ATA-100 isn't really all that important in the scheme of things here.
> So far, my searches on Dejanews seem to
> indicate that there are some problems with either installing FreeBSD, or
> booting FreeBSD from a RAID volume. I would like to configure two hard
> drives in a mirror (RAID1) config, and install and run the latest
> FreeBSD-STABLE on it. I'm considering either the Abit Hot Rod 100 or the
> Promise Fasttrack 100 RAID PCI cards. Does anyone have experience with
> either of those?
Yeah. They're not "RAID controllers" as such, they just have BIOS
support for striped and mirrored configurations.
If you expect the mirror to work like a "real" mirror, right now your
best bet is going to be one of the 3ware cards; I'd expect that someone
will improve the intelligence in the ATA RAID code at some point, but
right now it's way too raw (IMO) for production use.
--
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