Re: Recommendet (P)ATA-Controller for Raidframe

2005-07-29 Thread Edd Barrett
> > As stuart has pointed out, upgrading that will not be as easy as it > > could with hw raid. > > Yes, as long it is compatible with my budge ;) Is there any reason why a bsd.raidframe (for example) kernel could not be shipped with the distribution with all the device nodes static etc. ? Edd

Re: Recommendet (P)ATA-Controller for Raidframe

2005-07-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 28 July 2005 20:53 +0200, Ulrich Kahl wrote: Stuart Henderson schrieb: Oh, I have one of those. Unless it's a late revision, using the on-board cache only the first 128mb RAM is cacheable (K6-III helps on this motherboard due to the on-chip cache). And don't forget, if your filesystems a

Re: Recommendet (P)ATA-Controller for Raidframe

2005-07-28 Thread Ulrich Kahl
Edd Barrett schrieb: The raid will use 3 or 4 identical harddrives. Is that mirrored? If so, heres a gotcha: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=raidctl&sektion=8 "Note as well that RAID 1 sets are currently limited to only 2 components. At present, n-way mirroring is not possible.

Re: Recommendet (P)ATA-Controller for Raidframe

2005-07-28 Thread Ulrich Kahl
Stuart Henderson schrieb: --On 27 July 2005 15:13 +0200, Ulrich Kahl wrote: I plan to set up a fileserver using RAIDframe - I can't afford a hardware RAID-controller like Megaraid i4 (around EURO 280,--) and used ones are impossible to get, so I will use the software version. As long as you'

Re: Recommendet (P)ATA-Controller for Raidframe

2005-07-27 Thread Edd Barrett
> The raid will use 3 or 4 identical harddrives. Is that mirrored? If so, heres a gotcha: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=raidctl&sektion=8 "Note as well that RAID 1 sets are currently limited to only 2 components. At present, n-way mirroring is not possible." However, I think wit

Re: Recommendet (P)ATA-Controller for Raidframe

2005-07-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 27 July 2005 15:13 +0200, Ulrich Kahl wrote: I plan to set up a fileserver using RAIDframe - I can't afford a hardware RAID-controller like Megaraid i4 (around EURO 280,--) and used ones are impossible to get, so I will use the software version. As long as you're prepared to look internat

Recommendet (P)ATA-Controller for Raidframe

2005-07-27 Thread Ulrich Kahl
Hi! I plan to set up a fileserver using RAIDframe - I can't afford a hardware RAID-controller like Megaraid i4 (around EURO 280,--) and used ones are impossible to get, so I will use the software version. The raid will use 3 or 4 identical harddrives. My questions: - what is better, every dr