From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 10 01:50:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29197 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 01:50:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from electron.subatomic.net (rapier.windmill-lane.com [205.147.19.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA29183 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 01:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xique-list@subatomic.net) Message-Id: <199812100950.BAA29183@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 23495 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1998 09:50:19 -0000 Received: from we-24-130-18-134.we.mediaone.net (HELO 192.168.1.1) (24.130.18.134) by rapier.windmill-lane.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 1998 09:50:19 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 01:48:31 -0800 From: xique Subject: dpt raid controller To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Mailsmith (Bluto) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG greetings! i'd like to state right away that i've searched the faq, handbook, and various freebsd mailing lists (newbies, questions, hardware, scsi) for the answer to my question before asking it here. :) i did find many, many messages in the mailing list archives on the subject of dpt raids and i read quite a few of them and they were indeed helpful. based on what i found there i *think* i know the answer, but i want to doublecheck before any costly hardware is purchased. whew. on to the question. i've gathered that not all of the functions of the raid card can be manipulated or monitored directly by the freebsd utilities. one still needs to have a bootable partition with another o/s on it (like dos). is this right? can someone give me a breakdown of what i can do from freebsd and what i can't? particularly: initial setup of array, performance monitoring, status monitoring, rebuilding, failure notices. thanks very much in advance. i am about to embark on my first freebsd experience and i hope to make it a fault-tolerant one. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message