From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 10:20:46 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 C396D16A412 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from parrot.aev.net (parrot.aev.net [212.31.247.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BA243D49 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:20:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-ull-148-132.51-151.net24.it [151.51.132.148]) (authenticated bits=128) by parrot.aev.net (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k92APpWh059654 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:25:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from [10.1.2.18] (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k92AJs0O042872 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:19:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Message-ID: <4520E7EA.1060302@netfence.it> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:20:26 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 212.31.247.179 Subject: Replacing a Mylex AcceleRAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:20:46 -0000 Hello. A customer of mine is running a 4.x system with 5 or 6 SCSI disks, operated by the aforementione controller in a RAID5 configuration. Due to the obsolescence (and soon lack of support) of this version of the OS, we are planning the upgrade to 6.x and he would like to change the hardware too. In fact we are not to happy with this card: speed and stability are very good, but the lack of any tool to manage the RAID forces us to reboot. Besides, since Mylex seems to have gone out of business, we must hope that controller never dies, or the disks would not be accessible any more, would they? So, I have a few questions: _ 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? _ 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; _ any hint or recommendation for a replacement card which will possibly stay on the market for a while and has an OS management interface? I know this has probably been asked many times, but things tend to change over time, so what I found with Google might already be old... bye av.