3ware or other ATA RAID?

[Ralph Forsythe]

Yeah, it's the dead-disk part that scares me.  Most of what I've been
reading suggests that BSD can't repair the disk safely, or at all, and you
have to boot into a Linux CD just to restore the array.  Naturally, I
think that sucks.

Thanks for all the replies so far, I'm still not sure what I'm going to do
here...

- Ralph

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Alvin Gunkel wrote:

> Ralph,
>
> I've been running an older 3Ware card, a 6k series with four drives for
> almost a year now without a problem.  Granted I haven't had a disk die to
> test, but it's been rock solid.
>
> Alvin
>
> > I know FreeBSD support for the 3ware controllers is sketchy, I've read the
> > archives.  My original plan was to run FreeBSD with a 3ware 7500-8
> > controller and a stack of 250gb drives (mmm, storage!).  So my alternative
> > is to run Linux, or find another controller that works with BSD.
> >
> > Any recommendations?  I need it to work; the marginal "it might rebuild
> > your array" types of things I'm hearing with BSD is scaring me, and I
> > don't
> > like wondering if my 2TB array will fix itself without major work.  If BSD
> > supports a similar ATA RAID controller I'm definitely interested in
> > hearing
> > about it (though I'd like BSD to just update the driver they have now, so
> > the one I want will work!), otherwise I may have to revert to Linux for my
> > database server, at least until SCO sues me for running it. *laugh* (See
> > slashdot if you have no clue about what I just said re SCO)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Ralph
> >
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