From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed May 10 14:38:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F5737B996 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 14:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA28415; Wed, 10 May 2000 15:38:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 15:38:33 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Rainer Enders Cc: Rainer Enders , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which RAID controllers? Message-ID: <20000510153833.A28378@panzer.kdm.org> References: <199812012045.NAA21624@panzer.plutotech.com> <394118A6.7B7C2FAE@erilab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <394118A6.7B7C2FAE@erilab.com>; from rainer@erilab.com on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:17:42PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:17:42 -0400, Rainer Enders wrote: > Hello, > > what are the current choices for RAID controllers? > Are there any of the new boards supported in the 4.0 Release? > I checked in the Release Notes and it doesn't seem so. > It's strange that a good Server Operating System does not > have good support for the newer RAID hardware. > On the DPT website it says for the FreeBSD driver > "Coming Soon" whatever that means. > > Which one would be the best choice of RAID controller > for FreeBSD today? When will SmartRAID V and VI > supported? The internal RAID controllers from Mylex and AMI are supported in 4.0. Not every model is supported, however. Compaq SmartArray controllers are supported as well, and Mike Smith has a beta driver for 3ware RAID controllers. See: http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/index.html For a better synopsis of what is available. If you've got questions about the Mylex, AMI or 3ware support, mail Mike Smith . Simon Shapiro has written an I2O layer for FreeBSD that supports (I think) the SmartRAID V and maybe the VI as well. Contact him for details on that. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message