Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:23:16 -0400 From: "Mike Stackhouse" <mike@samsa.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org>, "Derek" <derek@durham.net> Subject: Re: Promise ATA RAID FastTrak100 TX2 Pro for Freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: <200208212123.AA67830030@samsa.com>
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Thanks - we'll try without softupdates. Interesting comment on no support for hot swap. Our whole intention for raid-1 is to prevent system downtime in case of drive failure. From your comment, doesn't sound like FreeBSD supports this? Would our only alternative be software raid? Thanks in advance! ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Derek" <derek@durham.net> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:22:12 -0400 > >> Is there something we should do to optimize our configuration? > >We have installed the very same product on one of our FreeBSD >boxen, it was 4.4-STABLE when we ran the install program, and >every thing went smooth. I believe this was before softupdates >was enabled by default. Perhaps when you are creating your mount >points you could try disabling softupdates and see if that makes >a difference. > >As a side note (that you might want to know), I don't believe >that the driver in FreeBSD supports hot swap. At least any time >we've had a drive fail, we get a kernel panic, and it's rebuild >mirror from the card's BIOS. > >Regards, >Derek > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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