From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Nov 11 2:15:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.clues.com [194.217.82.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA3314A10 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 02:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA59448; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:15:04 GMT (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:15:04 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham To: mdragon@vera.net Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SYM 0.9.0-19991024 O.K. Message-ID: <19991111101504.A59396@chuggalug.clues.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from mdragon@vera.net on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 01:36:52AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 01:36:52AM -0600, mdragon@vera.net wrote: > > My list of questions: > - Is vinum prefered over ccd ? Vinum is more fully featured than ccd and more activly being developed, I switched to vinum for stripes and mirrors on production machines about six months ago. I would still be cautios about using the RAID 5 in production. > - Is someone working on the AMI MegaRAID controller ? Mike Smith has written a driver available at: http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/ami/amr-stable-991109.tar.gz Which he announced to freebsd-stable with the following notes: } - This is the first revision. It should work OK, but I will } appreciate feedback on how well it works for you. } - You can't boot from a RAID volume. The fix for this is quite } nontrivial, and may not ever make it back into the 3.x family. } - Unlike with the Mylex cards, you _don't_ need to update the } bootstrap and loader before installing the card. > - Is it possible to use this raid somehow ? > (maybe through bios, at least the bootloader can recognize it) > Would sym0 find the raid ? I have the idea that it should, since it > appears in the SCSI bus as id #0 lun #1 -- GeoffB> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message