From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 07:12:57 2005 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 CCBEA16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:12:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC0843D2D for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:12:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lydianconcepts@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i8so252562rne for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:12:52 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=IZHYERf61FiiGLdCUH/xjk9Z9Tmv0b2qZ4JRZF/RVTzRv90eOsVU0O2bqCMrANcWxE4oP3Iq+SWvtSjSHy/YvjZAKvPhhM0ZbxQg+rruwS3FMlKrWdcd3l8vkEShmbkfTvr/QEzRE9s0hQKjnhFx46lPLb4GwpCgsHm3FCoc9Zg= Received: by 10.38.97.73 with SMTP id u73mr100466rnb; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:12:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.104.73 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:12:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7579f7fb05011223126b5ea738@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:12:52 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob To: Doug Ambrisko In-Reply-To: <200501122027.j0CKRE5B076546@ambrisko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050108195947.DE5B62BF1C@mx5.roble.com> <200501122027.j0CKRE5B076546@ambrisko.com> cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI 1030, RAID1 unsupported X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthew Jacob List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:12:57 -0000 Hi, Doug! LSI makes several RAID products- a lot from different companies they've bought. The behaviour and quality is quite variable. On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:27:14 -0800 (PST), Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Roger Marquis writes: > | On Sun May 23 2004 Scott Long wrote: > | >The mpt and amr drivers are largely unmaintained right now as LSI > | >no longer sponsors an engineer to take care of them. I'm not sure > | >what else to say about that other than we would gladly accept a new > | >maintainer. > | > | Is this likely to change in the foreseeable future? I just put > | together an IBM e325 and discovered that the LSI 1030's performance > | in RAID1 mode is abominable (5.3-RELEASE-p4, amd64, with Fujitsu > | MAP3367NCs). > > Make sure your system isn't in background init mode etc. Of course > I don't know how to do this without LSI monitoring utitilies. > > Complain to LSI the need for this. Without the various utilities and > versions with fixed bugs you can't run a reliable RAID (ie. won't > get RAID notificatioin that a drive went away, it is doing a > consistancy check, etc). > > The more people that complain then hopefully we can get LSI to fix > their binary only utilities that are required to monitor and admin. > their RAID controller :-( > > I messured the amr RAID controller is faster for everything then aac > on the same HW and drives under RAID 10. > > Doug A. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Lydian Concepts (AKA Matthew Jacob)