From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 18:27:25 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 BDBA516A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:27:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481CB43D45 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:27:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E925DDA; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:27:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31787-02; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:27:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3135C56; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:27:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43BEB693.3060805@mac.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:27:31 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: <6CADC5BD-FBF5-472E-8087-8494AD03549C@khera.org> <43BDED2E.7090803@mac.com> <701B6D67-507A-4361-8875-2D5527729E86@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <701B6D67-507A-4361-8875-2D5527729E86@khera.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: SCSI RAID card recommendation (1/2 height PCI-X U320 SCSI dual channel) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:27:25 -0000 Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> There's an interesting thread about the AMR RAID controller used in >> the newer 18x0/28x0 Dells with the PERC/4 controller, and I know of >> enough people using them that such improvements (by Doug Ambrisko?) >> will be welcomed. > > Thanks for your note. Turns out I have more than one Dell system with > aac controllers in them :-) They seem to be OK, although I like the AMR's a little better. I had to update the RAID BIOS on the PE 2650 before auto-rebuild of a broken mirror would work right using the aac controller. (It's either rackrounted Dells or HP 370/380 Proliants for me, depending upon the specific client in question.) > One happens to be a PE 1750 with the PERC 3/Di in it running RAID1. It > is lightly loaded but is sufficient for that server's needs, but is > running FreeBSD 4.11 on it. > > Is there a way to backport this diskinfo utility to 4.x or 5.x? Looks > most useful! On my 6.0 box with a PERC 3/Si card (aac driver too) it > is showing seek times slower than yours but transfer rates faster. diskinfo runs on 5.x, at least. I'm not sure about 4.x; I think some of the underlying infrastructure which smarttools also depends upon wasn't available until 5.x... -- -Chuck