What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

Geoffrey Giesemann geoffwa at cs.rmit.edu.au
Mon Feb 12 23:15:52 UTC 2007


On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:11:42PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> >On 2007-Feb-12 16:07:03 +1030, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> 
> >wrote:
> >>I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The 
> >>inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm).
> 
> >A decent UPS can help here.
> 
> No, i can't. I have seen UPS (even APC) fail in some cases. Computers
> got frozen. Also, i've seen many cases when power failes for more than 4 
> hours
> and nobody want to buy UPS which hold 4 hours of power for a dual xeon
> with 5 hdds.
> 

sysutils/nut is a good work-around for this.

--Geoff


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