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Excuse me, I'm confused. Where can I find a list of RAID controllers
supported in the FreeBSD
Operating System?

Is there a 'standard' SCSI controller interface specification on the PCI
bus side, that many manufacturer's build to? (chuckle)

Otherwise, is the consensus about a $1,000 price range SCSI RAID
controller ?

For Operating System performance, do many of you setup your SWAP drive
on a separate SCSI Controller? Seems that this configuration would
improve performance significantly. (especially running RAID 5)

Perhaps put the /tmp or /usr/tmp on that? hmmm or ram disk?


Cheers,


 -Alex


Steve Kaczkowski wrote:
> 
> "Randy A. Katz" wrote:
> >
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > Can you get a reading of the drive statuses from FreeBSD?
> >
> 
> No since the OS really doesn't know about the controller.. The only way
> to get status
> of the disks is via serial..
> 
> --
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