P-ATA RAID: 3Ware 7000-2 or Promise SX6000?

[Bob Bomar]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:25:23PM -0700, Matt Staroscik wrote:
> 
> I have posted recently about my fight with an Adaptec 2400A. Short version: 
> I am losing! It's time to consider plan B, so I am researching other RAID 
> hardware choices.
> 
> I am looking for a bootable, true hardware P-ATA RAID controller that will 
> let me create a RAID-1 mirror to safeguard my boot volume. This will be for 
> my home web/email/file server, so I do not require blistering speed. I also 
> do not require the ability to rebuild the array while the system is up -- 
> using the card's BIOS will be fine, I can take the downtime. In fact I 
> PREFER to do all RAID management in the BIOS.
> 

I have the Promise TX2 ATA100 controller:

atapci1: <Promise TX2 ATA100 controller>

ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ar0: 113487MB <ATA RAID1 array> [14467/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
 0 READY ad4: 114440MB <WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0> [232514/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33
         ad4: SuperSwap enclosure [FAN:4066rpm TEMP:29.0C 5.103V 11.895V]
 1 READY ad6: 114440MB <WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0> [232514/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA33
         ad6: SuperSwap enclosure [FAN:3924rpm TEMP:31.0C 5.049V 11.834V]


And it works great.  Because of Soren's ATA code, you are able to 
use atacontrol:

[bob at dakota] ~>sudo atacontrol status ar0
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY

[bob at dakota] ~>sudo atacontrol enclosure 3 0
fan RPM: 4166 temp: 31.0 5V: 5.05 12V: 11.83

[bob at dakota] ~>sudo atacontrol enclosure 2 0
fan RPM: 4166 temp: 31.0 5V: 5.05 12V: 11.83

I have the  SuperSwap enclosures which allow me to hot swap the drives.

I do beleve that it will support the 160G drives.

Here is the link:

http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=93&familyId=7

-- 
Bob Bomar
bob at bomar.us
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