From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 09:57:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0448216A404 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:57:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.12.174.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 242D343D45 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:57:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from ocs.savola.com (ocs.savola.com [222.22.1.211]) by heathrow.savoladns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB7B95872 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 12:57:47 +0300 (AST) Received: from 222.22.1.191 by ocs.savola.com with ESMTP id 56791721146995202; Sun, 07 May 2006 12:46:42 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <1146989147.814.18.camel@localhost.savola.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-cx1e5hlPI4qs2o+jn6QV" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 12:57:59 +0300 Message-Id: <1146995879.814.30.camel@localhost.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: Re: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 09:57:52 -0000 --=-cx1e5hlPI4qs2o+jn6QV Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:34 +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > Yousef Raffah writes: >=20 > > I'm trying to install a new server which has a hardware RAID controller= . >=20 > Hardware RAID controllers such as amr(4) or twe(4) (I've seen LSI > MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 and 3Ware Escalade 8006-2 LP, the latter is a 2-port > SATA controller and can't do RAID5 for lack of ports) stuff usually > presents a whole logical unit as a single SCSI drive (/dev/da0 for the > first disk array, /dev/da1 for the second and so on), so you shouldn't > need vinum, geom or anything like that - just the driver would suffice. >=20 > If you need vinum or geom to implement a RAID then chances are your > so-called "hardware RAID" is actually fake (fakeraid) and really > software RAID. Adaptec "HostRAID" and the RAID in intel's ICH x-R > chipsets falls into this fakeraid category. The vendors don't like to > present it as software RAID, so that particular bit is extremely hard to > find :-( >=20 > What is the brand and model of your so-called hardware RAID? >=20 The machine is a compaq server with Smart RAID controller -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com --=-cx1e5hlPI4qs2o+jn6QV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEXcSnH9IXMb4e6CMRAmcsAJ45RNsQBoiUkFP7w1Yb2qMPsWYnPACeKHwD TZJQ9f0K1Bc2eCotJ/oyeGw= =FJZH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-cx1e5hlPI4qs2o+jn6QV--