Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:24:45 -0400 From: Troy Arie Cobb <tcobb@staff.circle.net> To: 'Mike Tancsa' <mike@sentex.net>, Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <AE4A7B7EB10DD4118CBD0050DA196F4F4CC7@FRIGGA>
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I can't find this in 4.0-STABLE, cvsup'd just a few days ago. Can anyone point me to this tool? - Troy > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike@sentex.net] > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 8:23 AM > To: Mark Powell > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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