From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 20 13:38:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from tahoe.cinenet.net (ns1.cinenet.net [198.147.76.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74109153B1 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:38:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sraja@cinenet.net) Received: from hermosa.cinenet.net (hermosa.cinenet.net [198.147.76.90]) by tahoe.cinenet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA27349; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:37:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Suresh Rajagopalan To: Mark Conway Wirt Cc: Michael Hartung , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID-controller / Software In-Reply-To: <19990720090729.B9345@intrepid.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The DPT has a dos-based management program that will fit on a floppy. > You have to boot to dos (from the floppy) to set up the storage. No > management port required. Yes, but you still have no way to look at the status of the array while the machine is running -- something which is needed -- when a drive gets hosed you then have to then depend on the beep count (if I remember right) to identify and replace it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message