From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 19:27:30 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 009D216A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:27:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from miramanee.icarz.com (miramanee.icarz.com [207.99.22.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A29A43D1F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:27:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kenm@icarz.com) Received: from kenxp (netb-138.icarz.com [209.123.219.138]) by miramanee.icarz.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j06JRSRu026720 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:27:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kenm@icarz.com) Message-ID: <2a1f01c4f425$c2fc04c0$8adb7bd1@icarz.com> From: "Ken Menzel" To: Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:27:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: management apps for U320 RAID controllers on 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:27:30 -0000 Hi, We have always used adaptec asr style controllers with asr-utils package and scripts written to remotely monitor the raid using the command line raidutil program. We are now looking to do this with Ultra320 drives and FreeBSD 5.3. Can anyone recommend a controller that has or will have U320 support and tools to monitor/manage the arrays in FreeBSD 5.x? We have a database application, that updates often and needs a high speed caching RAID controller. We have used RAID 10 in the past. I was considering an Adaptec 39320A-R, it uses the 'ahd' driver but I can't seem to find a toolset for managing and monitoring.Will the LINUX "Adaptec Storage manager v2.12" RPM run under FreeBSD? What is the difference between "HostRAID" and "non-HostRAID"?! I am open to suggestions, I can't find much info on the Adaptec web site, except that FreeBSD is not a supported OS. I am also considering one of Dell's PERC controllers which I assume would use the aac-cli tool set. I saw some-one already asked similar questions about IBM serveRAID with regards to ZCR, I am not sure it would be wise to assume all things to be equal with U320 controllers! Thanks in advance for any advice on 5.3 and U320 tools! Ken ----------------------------------------------------- Ken Menzel ICQ# 9325188 www.icarz.com kenm@icarz.com