From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 22:55:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE6337B400; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA95771; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 01:55:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 01:55:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Mike Smith Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AAA-131 + RAID? In-Reply-To: <200011302339.eAUNd3F00918@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: >> greetings, >> >> i am wondering if anyone has had success using the raid capabilities of >> the Adaptec AAA-131 "raid" controller? > >It's not a "RAID" controller, it's a checksum accelerator module, and >it's not supported. > >> i'm having difficulties where FreeBSD sees the three disks instead of the >> array i created. > >You don't have an array, you have three disks. 8) Seems to me that these devices are very similiar to the ATA RAID stuff Soren has recently supported with his ar driver. Has any thought been given to creating a SCSI psuedo-RAID driver called sr that does the equivalent function? -- Brandon D. Valentine "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message