> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:08:21 +0000 (GMT) > From: Gavin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: nVidia RAID + FreeBSD 6.0 > To: Christian Brueffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:46:52PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> I am looking at getting a motherboard based on nForce 3 or 4, and I am > >> wondering if the RAID will be usable? > > > > Be aware though that there have been reports on the lists of data loss > > in connection with NVIDIA RAIDs. This seems to also happen on other > > operating systems. > > In my experience, they seem to be reliable while both disks work, but when > a disk needs to be rebuilt the RAID BIOS seem to pick the source disk at > random, as opposed to something radical like using the only valid disk as > the source.
Gee, no RAID at all is reliable when both disks work! A RAID solution that has problems when one disk fails is pretty darn worthless as a RAID solution. ... > Indeed, on the hardware I was using (a Sun X2100 server), Solaris had the > same problem, and about 50% of the time you'd end up with corrupted or > blank disks after a rebuild. Sun have now stopped claiming in the > specifications that these machines support RAID ... "Doctor Sun, it hurts when I do this." "Well, don't do that." Not the best response one might hope for. Regards, Jim _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
