Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:42:21 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Thierry Herbelot <therbelot@dibcom.fr> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak RAID 5 support ? Message-ID: <20051125174221.GD1851@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <200511251734.36605.therbelot@dibcom.fr> References: <200511251734.36605.therbelot@dibcom.fr>
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--2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 05:34:36PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I've been googling for some time and I can't seem to find out whether the= ata=20 > subsystem of FreeBSD supports the RAID5 feature of the Promise boards. >=20 > Two boards seem interesting : (by Promise) FastTrak S150 SX4-M and =20 > FastTrak SX4100 (I haven't exactly seen the differences, though) >=20 > from the ATA mkIII update commit log, it seems that the RAID support for= =20 > Promises is fairly good, but even after a glimpse at the ata-raid src in= =20 > cvsweb, I'm not sure of anything. >=20 > Has any one a hint on a cost-effective, FreeBSD-supported RAID-5 SATA di= sk=20 > controller ? >=20 To quote from the commit log of src/sys/deb/ata/ata-raid.c, rev. 1.98.2.4: =3D=3D=3D Disable RAID5 for the release. The RAID5 code is not complete, it does not use nor maintain the parity, so it does actually only do RAID0. This is not wanted for a production release. =3D=3D=3D Take a look at e.g. the amr(4), aac(4) or arcmsr(4) manpages for a list of hardware that's closer to what you're looking for. (I'll add something about RAID5 to ataraid(4) the next couple of days) - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDh0z9bHYXjKDtmC0RAotoAKCqhKHbopUC4i4H+FVmyIPkyXsitACdGJx6 +qJdGRfLojr5WxdSVAE2btM= =lIeQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB--
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