From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Sep 8 19:16: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64A337B406 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 19:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15ftkD-0003vx-00; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:50:45 -0700 Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:50:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Michael Burns Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID 5 controller replacement (DPT/Adaptec SmartRAID IV) In-Reply-To: <20010909003733.A60723@fasturl.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Michael Burns wrote: > ON Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 04:22:36PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > > > I've had a DPT SmartRAID IV die before. I popped in a new controllor, > > hooked up the drive array and turned it on. Everything just worked. The > > DPT controllers store the config in NVRAM and on disk. If there is no > > config in NVRAM, and it pull it off the disks. > > Do you know whether the array was RAID 5? Yes, it was RAID 5. I don't really see that the DPT treats logical disks any differently no matter what the RAID level. The config goes on disk regardless. > > -- > Michael Burns > Systems Administrator > Vener Net Inc. > michael@fasturl.net > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message