From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 14 14: 2:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B762154AC for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id VAA68507; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:00:26 GMT Message-ID: <37656CE4.D991DE85@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:58:12 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaime Bozza Cc: Joe Greco , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, rjebara@palnet.com Subject: Re: Hardware RAID for FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jaime Bozza wrote: > > I'm not sure about the speed of the SmartRAID V stuff (U2W suite), but the > configuration is all done through the BIOS now. No DOS App is needed to > configure. > > It may be worth a second look. Speed wise, we've found our "entry level" DPT system to be pretty damned quick, but that's our personal oppinion :) We don't have a SmartRAID V unit, so I could be speaking out of turn here... But, I doub't the BIOS can aid and assist you with a 'live' system, to the point of changing hot-swap configurations / drives etc. without restarting the O/S (how else are you going to get into the BIOS when a drive has failed without restarting? :) The BIOS will take you so far, but without native FreeBSD tools, your back to the "wait for the beeps", then schedule a 'convienent' time for the box to be downed to sort things out... :-( (via the BIOS or otherwise, until theres native FreeBSD utils :-( -Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message