From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 06:13:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5EF16A4CF; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3AA143D6B; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:13:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1])BED4F297CB; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:13:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA89A734E; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:13:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07930-04; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:13:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 97339A6E6A; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:13:10 +0200 (CEST) To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <408EDBD0.8000805@freebsd.org> (Scott Long's message of "Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:16:48 -0600") References: <408EC2F1.5070300@steelerubber.com> <408EDBD0.8000805@freebsd.org> From: Matthias Andree Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:13:10 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at m2a2.dyndns.org cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org cc: Walter Vaughan Subject: Re: Recommended RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:13:15 -0000 Scott Long writes: > AMI/LSI MegaRAID: > - This hardware used to be well supported, but the vendor no > longer provides regular updates. I don't know whether a > management app exists or not, though I doubt that it does. There is a _Linux_ diagnosis app, but I have no clues whether that works with FreeBSD in Linux emulation. I'd used an LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 for a short time ("just to see if it works") with 5.1 last fall, no problems w/ RAID level 5 on three Fujitsu MAP3367NC, peak read in excess of 130 MB/s, write-through cache (no battery backup unit installed yet), write rate was untested. I didn't bother to test install the Linux diagnosis app in FreeBSD. It works fine in SuSE Linux 9.0 though after one's gotten used to the common confusion that a commercial software causes, usually WRT the user interface. The configuration/management stuff is a "Web BIOS" thingy that is accessed during BIOS boot. Suffices for applications that allow down times as the re-building of a replaced drive does not require intervention -- as can be expected from controllers in the 500+ =A4 range. --=20 Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95