Previous correspondence from Brent Wiese (18:50 12-1-2004 -0700):
>3Ware cards are expensive, but you get what you pay for. Whatever code they
>have to optimize the disk use works wonders.
About a year ago I bought a set of two Escalades and placed them in
NetBSD machines. I believe the driver is
Hi there Paul,
Previous correspondence from Paul Hamilton (15:19 12-1-2004 +0800):
>How about the Rocket Raid 1540 or the 1820, 8 drive SATA for ~ AUS$330
>48bit LBA, can do Raid 1 and single drives at the same time. Raid 5 is
>slow, because it does software parity checking.
Thanks for the tip.
> The 3ware cards are quite expensive, according to the pricing
> lists I've
> seen so far. I wonder if the 8506-card mentioned in another post also
> works in 32bit PCI slots. Otherwise, I'd need a Xeon board. But that's
> another post in the thread.
3Ware cards are expensive, but you get what y
Hi there Jon
Previous correspondence from jon (17:09 4-1-2004 -0800):
>do you have the RAID enabled version for your Promise
>controller? If so, I guess it's a match
>
>yes sir, and I apologize for my vagueness.
Thanks for the confirmation. It seems I'll give the controller a try.
I heard from on
Previous correspondence from Subhro (01:06 5-1-2004 +0530):
>What is the amount of money you would like to shell out for the card?
As I mentioned, it's supposed to be relatively cheap. Say 50 to 100 EUR.
(US$ 65 - 125 as present rates). I should've given the figure in my first
message. Sorry for t
Hi there Jon,
Previous correspondence from jon (14:22 4-1-2004 -0800):
>On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 14:09, Rogier Krieger wrote:
>> controller and a Promise S150 TX2Plus RAID which
>
>2003 atapci0:
thanks for checking. One thing I still wonder about, though:
do you have the RAID enabled version for yo
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 14:09, Rogier Krieger wrote:
> What we've come up with so far are the Adaptec
1210SA S-ATARAID
> controller and a Promise S150 TX2Plus RAID which
seem affordable.
%grep -iE '(release|promise)' /var/run/dmesg.boot
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Mon Oct 6 21:44:56 EDT
2003 atap
I am also interested in this as well. raid 5 would be a bonus.
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