From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 02:47:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AFF16A5AD for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 02:47:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from outbound0.sv.meer.net (outbound0.mx.meer.net [209.157.153.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7422843D45 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 02:47:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.sv.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k962jrjP085660 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:47:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id k962jcct083565 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: (from jrhett@localhost) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) id k962jc51083564 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:45:38 -0700 From: Jo Rhett To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061006024538.GB77594@svcolo.com> References: <4520E7EA.1060302@netfence.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4520E7EA.1060302@netfence.it> Organization: svcolo.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: Replacing a Mylex AcceleRAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:47:23 -0000 On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:20:26PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > _ is support for this card (mly driver) improved in newer versions? Is > it working ok even on AMD64 platform? Are there any utilities to manage > it through the OS? It currently fails during reboot. The driver maintainer offered a patch which didn't work. I had to switch hardware, and I'm trying to find time to rebuilt that system for him to test with. > _ how about going with software RAID? AFAIK there are graid3 (which is > not what we want, I guess) and gvinum, but I heard the latter is not > quite production ready and/or the documentation is not finished; gvinum is dead. geom vinum is SWEEEEET. -- Jo Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation