Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:46:55 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC 3si ... raid 1+0 possible ? Message-ID: <4138E64F.5010901@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4138E5AB.1070709@samsco.org> References: <20040903212744.59021.qmail@web53310.mail.yahoo.com> <4138E5AB.1070709@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > Joe Schmoe wrote: > >> I would like to configure four physical disks as >> follows: >> >> two mirrored volumes, and then create a stripe set out >> of the two mirrored volumes. This is raid 1+0, I >> believe. So I would end up with only one logical disk >> that FreeBSD would see, and it would be 1/2 the size >> of the total size of the four disks. >> >> Can the PERC 3si do this ? >> > > Further, is there command support in the FreeBSD CLI > > to maintain and rebuild raid 1+0 volumes ? > > > > Thanks you. > > > > You want to do this on a sparc64 machine? The aac driver > will not work on big-endian machines right now. If that gets > fixed then I guess there is nothing that would prevent it from > working. However, there is no boot support (I worked on an > OpenBoot BIOS for a little while but never finished it) and > there is no management support. The CLI that I did for FreeBSD > is closed-source and only for i386. You can always create the > array on an i386 system and move it to the sparc64 system, but > you won't have any way to manage it. The good news is that things > like spare activation happen entirely in the card and not in the > driver or management app. > > Scott Man, I don't know what drugs I'm on, I read this off of the wrong list. Yes, the PERC3/si will work with FreeBSD on i386 and amd64. Sorry for confusing things with 'sparc64'. Scott
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