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Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD
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At 12:39 02.07.2003 -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote:

>[...]
>It works equally well with Adaptec hardware raid with 5 SCSI drives in a
>Raid 5 configuration. Gotta love FreeBSD. Although, not everyone needs raid
>5, but it's nice to know that it works and works well.

hello Michael,

please could you tell us which Adaptec hardware you are using at which 
FreeBSD version.

How do you manage the raid on the running system? Is there a console 
application to do things like configuration, drive-shutdown etc...

with best regards,

Alexander

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Alexander Haderer             Charite Berlin - Germany