From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 6:54:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E191014F5B for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (m15.chn.vsnl.net.in [202.54.43.218] (may be forged)) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05969; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 01:23:59 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00939; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:19:44 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:19:43 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: Johnny Wu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DPT SmartRAID V (was: DPT SmartRAID IV drivers almost released?) Message-ID: <20000120181943.N533@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jwu@apexusa.com on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 03:35:07PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 17 January 2000 at 15:35:07 -0800, Johnny Wu wrote: > > I have a question regarding DPT drivers for their 4th generation SmartRAID > products. It looks to me like you're talking about the SmartRAID V. We already have drivers for the SmartRaid IV. > It looks like they are coming out soon with their FreeBSD drivers, > including a neat command-line tool to monitor/configure the system > (although I got conflicting messages, see below). Indeed, I see nothing of this below. > Is it better to wait for these drivers to get into a -RELEASE, or > just use DPT developed drivers when (and if) they do get released? I wouldn't hold my breath for DPT to do something. They've been a very unreliable source of information in the past. > I'm primary interested in implementing a hot-swappable spare RAID > 0/1 configuration, and according to the mailing lists, but you can't > tell if a failure occurs on FreeBSD with 3rd generation DPT > controllers, is that right? I don't know about that, but the performance of the III and IV leaves something to be desired. > Also, is it true that you can can boot off of a logical drive on a DPT > RAID array? I'm also hearing conflicting information on whether you need > a independent drive to boot or not. I don't think so. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message