From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 17:41:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10332 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA10327 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:41:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: (qmail 15018 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 1999 01:40:43 -0000 Message-ID: <19990108014043.15016.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 15005 invoked from network); 8 Jan 1999 01:40:43 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 1999 01:40:43 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:40:43 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Clarion RAID subsystems on FreeBSD ? Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <4.1.19990107141906.009f0c50@206.25.93.69> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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