On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > The 3ware cards work quite well for this. ~ $120 USD for the 2 port > version. During rebuilds the server is still available and you can control > for the most part how fast or slow the rebuild process works. Its not very > granular, but it does afford some control.
I'll second that. I have the 3ware two port model and it seems to have "burped" and decided one of the disks was dead. I went to the management interface (web-only) and removed/added the "bad" drive and then rebuilt the mirror. Performance was fine during the rebuild. Now why the one drive went "bad" is a question I cannot answer... Supposedly the newest firmware supports SMART, but I don't think the FreeBSD driver nor the 3ware web interface do anything with that data. Charles > Its essentially radio buttons that look like > > Faster I/O * * * * * Faster Rebuild > > Give them a try, I think you will like them. > > > ---Mike > > At 01:31 PM 16/06/2003 -0400, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > >We've been messing with some of the IDE RAID controllers without > >a lot of success. All we care about is RAID 1 on a single disk > >(basically to get high availablity on simple servers). > > > >Our tests with Highpoint controllers indicate that the system > >becomes essentially unavailable during rebuild. We'd like to find > >an IDE RAID solution that did not suffer from this problem since > >the only reason we want the RAID is to increase uptime, not reduce > >it. > > > >Almost seems like the right answer would be a device that went > >between the controller and 2 drives to mirror the data. This would > >mean no O/S support (or knowledge) is required. But the only ones > >I've found do not support current high capacity, high speed drives. > > > >/\/\ \/\/ > >_______________________________________________ > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
