Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:12:52 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI 1030, RAID1 unsupported Message-ID: <7579f7fb05011223126b5ea738@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200501122027.j0CKRE5B076546@ambrisko.com> References: <20050108195947.DE5B62BF1C@mx5.roble.com> <200501122027.j0CKRE5B076546@ambrisko.com>
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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 <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> 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)
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