From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 01:37:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03691 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 01:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03652 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 01:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id IAA05161; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:36:31 GMT Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:36:30 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Karl Pielorz cc: tcobb , "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: DPT driver fails and panics with Degraded Array In-Reply-To: <356E6BE1.50B8AEC1@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 May 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > One comment (and it's not a flame!) - honestly... ;-) > > With an array of that size, on a machine that important - did you not test > to see what would happen with a failed drive? > I recently got a DPT too for a production system but my needs were not as critical. I use a SYM53C875 for the system disk and the DPT with 2 mirrored drives for data. I can do some experimentation during off hours with this system. I would like to see the DPT stabilize such that large arrays could be used reliably so I'll try and test patches against 2.2.6, after I work out a budget to get more drives. Regards, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message