From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 28 5:16:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A8D37B992 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 05:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (postfix@genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA76096; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:15:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 1B4DA362; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:16:19 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:16:19 +0100 From: Joe Karthauser To: Mark Powell Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <20000428131619.K40708@pavilion.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:22:35PM +0100 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Mark Powell wrote: > As the DPT SmartRAID IV controllers are now obsolete, what's the best bet > for hardware RAID under FreeBSD? From a bit of reading the AMI > controllers seem to be well featured and regarded. Just how good is the > support for these controllers in 4.0R? I'm trying to hold off using 4.x on > any servers until I've used 4.0R for a while to become familiar with it > and more specifically until 4.1R is released. > Am I being paranoid or will the AMI controllers and 4.0S be just fine as > a server? > Cheers. Simon Shapiro's writing an i2o subsystem for 3.x, which supports the DPT smart raid V card. He's working on support for 4.x, but it's to there yet. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message