From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed May 10 12:22:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAEB37B92F for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 12:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA42874; Wed, 10 May 2000 12:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005101922.MAA42874@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: rainer@erilab.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which RAID controllers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:17:42 EDT." <394118A6.7B7C2FAE@erilab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:22:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID > what are the current choices for RAID controllers? > Are there any of the new boards supported in the 4.0 Release? > I checked in the Release Notes and it doesn't seem so. > It's strange that a good Server Operating System does not > have good support for the newer RAID hardware. > On the DPT website it says for the FreeBSD driver > "Coming Soon" whatever that means. > > Which one would be the best choice of RAID controller > for FreeBSD today? When will SmartRAID V and VI > supported? > > Regards, > Rainer. > > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > Rainer Enders wrote... > > > Which RAID Controllers work best with > > > FreeBSD 2.2.7/2.2.8? > > > > > > Any different answer for 3.0? > > > > For 2.2.7/2.2.8, or 3.0, your choices are: > > > > - DPT, if you want an internal RAID controller > > - Any external SCSI-SCSI RAID controller. > > > > > I would like to use either Mylex or DPT if at > > > all possible. > > > > DPT cards are supported. The Mylex internal RAID controllers are > > not supported, but their SCSI-SCSI controllers should work fine with a > > supported SCSI controller. > > > > Ken > > -- > > Kenneth Merry > > ken@plutotech.com > > begin:vcard > n:Enders;Rainer > tel;cell:+1.415.244.1937 > tel;home:+1.925.979.9591 > x-mozilla-html:FALSE > adr:;;;;;; > version:2.1 > email;internet:rainer@erilab.com > fn:Rainer Enders > end:vcard > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message