Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-19 Thread m...@mdaniel.de
My conclusion: B Marco's suggestion that I look for cards with the letters IR/IS or IM led me to buy a Fujitsu LSI MegaRAID 1064 Part-NoS26361-F3257-L4 which has the -IR in its firmware name and a SAS1064LE chip. It looks good but I'm still waiting for the SAS -> SATA cable which I forgot to order

Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-16 Thread Ryan Corder
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:47:55PM +0100, Jurjen Oskam wrote: | On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:30:18PM +0100, m...@mdaniel.de wrote: | | > I have a hard time finding a RAID1 capable controller that is well | > supported via bioctl, available, and not too expensive. | > Is there e.g. a nice mpi or mpii

Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-16 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:30:18PM +0100, m...@mdaniel.de wrote: > I have a hard time finding a RAID1 capable controller that is well > supported via bioctl, available, and not too expensive. > Is there e.g. a nice mpi or mpii card that can be controlled via bioctl? > The man page only mentions th

Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-15 Thread m...@mdaniel.de
> mpi/mpii cards that do IR/IS or IM should do RAID 1 just fine and are > supported by bioctl.B You just have to purchase the card carefully > and make sure it has one of those acronyms. Thanks for the info. This will make it easier to find the right cards I don't want to appear lazy but finding t

Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
mpi/mpii cards that do IR/IS or IM should do RAID 1 just fine and are supported by bioctl. You just have to purchase the card carefully and make sure it has one of those acronyms. A bit more expensive would be mfi but those are well supported. What I don't know much about but is cheap are the ar