From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 2 23:19:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-106.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE5737B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e936KVh05030; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:20:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010030620.e936KVh05030@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Michael DeMutis Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERC2 RAID support in 4.1-STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 02:15:15 EDT." <3.0.3.32.20001003021515.01138b00@tristo.netinc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:20:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are two entirely different RAID controller families that are relabelled as "PERC 2". See http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/index.html#ami and http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/index.html#adaptec for more details. > How is the Dell PERC2 RAID support in 4.1-STABLE? > > I have a server being delivered in a week and it's running a 2 disk array. > > Is this going to be a nightmare to setup? > > I'll be installing 4.x from scratch, and I'd like full LVL 5 RAID support. > The machine has to boot from the RAID device. Is there a process I should > follow for installation? > > Help is always appreciated. > > Thanks! > Michael DeMutis > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael DeMutis > System's Administrator || 2Gen.Inc. > 143 James Street South, Suite 300, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8P 3A1 > email: mike@2gen.net website: http://www.2gen.net/ > Phone: 905-308-9155 Fax: 905-308-9519 ICQ UIN: 1257176 > "Merging Media & Idea To Bring Internet Exposure to Innovative Businesses" > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message