Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:22:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: rainer@erilab.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which RAID controllers? Message-ID: <200005101922.MAA42874@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:17:42 EDT." <394118A6.7B7C2FAE@erilab.com>
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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
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