Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:40:43 -0800 From: "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicdms.com> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clarion RAID subsystems on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <19990108014043.15016.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990107141906.009f0c50@206.25.93.69>
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On 7 Jan 99, at 14:20, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Where I work, we just met with a vendor that resells Clarion > RAID arrays, also some tape libs. That would be "CLARiiON", I think? > When we mentioned that > most of our servers are FreeBSD-based, we got the ol' sales > chat about free systems and support issues, blah blah. Don't you love that? On the other hand, it does come in handy sometimes. Just today I got a call from some marketing droid trying to push his product. I asked what platforms it ran on. "WinNT and Solaris". He asked what we were running. "FreeBSD". He ended that call real fast! > Firstly, we would need specialized drivers. I wondered if anyone > out in the FreeBSD world might have some experience in using > these arrays with a FreeBSD system. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I just took a look at http://www.clariion.com and it appears that their products are SCSI- SCSI RAID, which means they shouldn't require any special OS support. In fact, they even say "Vendor-independent architecture accommodates a wide variety of hosts" and "Host Interface: 16-bit SCSI-2 @ 20 MB/s". If they insist that it requires specialized drivers, you might want to look into a system using CMD RAID controllers. Their controllers truly are OS-independent. (Disclaimer: I've never actually used a CMD controller. However, I have discussed the (lack of) OS requirements with their technicians, and I plan to buy two of their controllers for use with FreeBSD once I get the budget approved.) Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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