IDE RAID controllers

[Irvine Short]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Chris Shenton wrote:

> I got a DELL 600SC "server" a while back, not expensive, came with a
> DELL "CERC"-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI
> controller card.

thanks Chris and other who replied!

Much appreciated.

Cheers,

Irvine



 I've been running them as a couple RAID-5 volumes
> under FreeBSD-5.x.  Do a search on the lists for CERC and you should
> find my other postings on this.
>
> I had some problems with drives failing but it appears it was an early
> run of flakey WD1200JB 120GB drives, not the controller.
>
> I haven't tried hot swapping or other stuff, but that's not why I
> bought it.
>


Irvine Short

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