From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 28 5:24:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF1937BEB8 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 05:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA43976; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:24:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA12125; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:24:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000428081704.03735e30@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:23:23 -0400 To: Mark Powell From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.2.20000428074518.03404fa0@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:11 PM 4/28/2000 +0100, Mark Powell wrote: >Yep, 0,1,5,10 and 50 are the only levels we may require. Some sort of >FBSD management utility would be useful, although unlikely? Its there for the Mylex... e.g. newmail# mlxcontrol Unknown command '(null)'. Valid commands are: status displays device status rescan scan for new system drives detach detach system drives check consistency-check a system drive rebuild initiate a rebuild of a dead physical drive config examine and update controller configuration help give help on usage newmail# See the man page for mlxcontrol. The config from scratch isnt there yet, but the rebuild/status/check is etc is... newmail# mlxcontrol check mlxd0 newmail# mlxcontrol status mlxd0 mlxd0: online [consistency check: 8223936/8273920, 0% complete] newmail# mlxcontrol status mlxd0 mlxd0: online [consistency check: 3345472/8273920, 59% complete] newmail# > > You might want to pick up a Mylex and a AMI off of E-Bay cheap and test > > them out for your self. > >I already have an old DAC960 which I may test. However, I'd like others >opinions. I'm sure more testing than I could ever hope to do has already >been done. www.dejanews.com/usenet. Choose power search, use *freebsd* for the form, and try mylex or megaraid for the keywords... Search through and see what people have said. > > I have been using 4.x for our internal Squid proxy > > with great results. I didnt have problems with the AMI card, except > that I > > could artificially wedge it under high load. There have been new patches > > to the driver, so its possible the problem has been fixed, but I havent > had > > time to test that. > >Does anyone on the list know if this has been fixed? This was discussed recently. IIRC, one said yes, one said no. > > For us the plan is to replace our main production > > servers with 4.x as soon as we have the time to do it with Mylex cards > > where appropriate. > >Are you moving to the Mylex cards just because of the above problem, or >something else? Partly the above problems (we have a need to move ahead now), but mostly because we havent been able to crash the driver with whatever artificial load we threw at it. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message