supported h/w raid controllers (SATA or IDE)

Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +1000, Carl Brewer
wrote:
>>> But I don't know which of them is much good,
so throw myself
>>> open to the wisdom of the list.  Any
suggestions?  What's good
>>> and cheap (I know ...) and easy to get hold of?
>> Further to this, I can get the Adaptec 2410SA at an
affordable
>> price (it's around $500 AUD - roughly the cost of
a 400GB HDD).
> 
> I'd recommend against that controller.  I am not even
entirely sure
> it will work with the aac driver (that driver has
needed an update
> for a long, long time).  If you're willing to settle
for a controller
> without online managment tools for NetBSD (also true of
the Adaptec)
> you might consider the LSI MegaRAID instead -- the
150-4, 150-6, or
> 300.

The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards S/W
RAID1,
getting rid of the need for possibly dodgey support for
these
controllers.

Does anyone here know of any effort to port ZFS to NBSD?

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Carl Brewer wrote:

> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +1000, Carl
Brewer wrote:
>>>> But I don't know which of them is much
good, so throw myself
>>>> open to the wisdom of the list.  Any
suggestions?  What's good
>>>> and cheap (I know ...) and easy to get hold
of?
>>> Further to this, I can get the Adaptec 2410SA
at an affordable
>>> price (it's around $500 AUD - roughly the cost
of a 400GB HDD).
>> 
>> I'd recommend against that controller.  I am not
even entirely sure
>> it will work with the aac driver (that driver has
needed an update
>> for a long, long time).  If you're willing to
settle for a controller
>> without online managment tools for NetBSD (also
true of the Adaptec)
>> you might consider the LSI MegaRAID instead -- the
150-4, 150-6, or
>> 300.
>
> The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning
towards S/W RAID1,
> getting rid of the need for possibly dodgey support for
these
> controllers.

 	I normally chime in at this point in such discussions.

 	I'm running RAID1 raidframe on just about all of my
NetBSD
 	boxes, even dedicated servers. The only exceptions being
 	laptops and the occasional test scratch box. The slowdown
 	for a parity rebuild in the case of an unclean shutdown is
 	annoying, but otherwise I've been extremely happy with
the
 	result. Maybe that would be a nice SoC project...

 	I'd recommend getting disks from different vendors of ~
 	the same size and picking the smaller size for the raid -
 	reduces the likelyhood of two disks failing at the same
 	time (thankyou maxtor). The only time I break that rule is
 	with WD Raptors, but for the massively better seek times
 	I'm prepared to compromise 

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