From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 1:30:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berk.mail.netforce.net (berk.mail.netforce.net [195.58.64.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEDD14C3E for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 01:30:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jholtom@netforce.net) Received: from bagpuss.i.netforce.net (tarbuck.netforce.net [195.58.64.34]) by berk.mail.netforce.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA13673; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:47:27 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:30:04 +0000 (GMT) From: James Holtom Reply-To: James Holtom To: Josh Tiefenbach Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq RAID controllers and mirrored boot disks In-Reply-To: <19991102123523.M40280@zipperup.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Josh Tiefenbach wrote: > I've trolled the archives, and while I've found positive reports of people > using the ida driver, I havent found anything definative on my question: > > Is there anyone who has installed, booted, and successfully used FreeBSD on a > Compaq Proliant using Compaq's SMART RAID controllers in an environment in > which the boot drives were mirrored? Yes. Compaq Proliant 1600 (IIRC) 5* 4.3GB discs. 2* 4.3 as RAID 1, as a single logical drive -- containing /, swap, /usr 3* 4.3 as RAID 5, as a single logical drive -- containing /var That was a test I was conducting using 3.2stable around end of July. Sadly I lost the system to another part of the team, for aNoTher OS, but as it had proved reliable (20days uptime, before I had to conclude my test) I have been given a nice shiny new one to play^w work with as soon as I find a moment... Cheers, James Speaking personally, not for my employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message