From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 16 17:58:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12309 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA12297; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wdmYu-0002tH-00; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:55:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:55:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Simon Shapiro cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-SCSI@freebsd.org, "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: Announcement: New DPT RAID Controller Driver Available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: ... > The driver supports the PM3334{U,W,D} which is a PCI controller > sporting a 68030 processor, up to 3 SCSI ultra-wide-differential > busses. It is also available (I think) as narrow, non-ultra and > definitely single-ended. www.dpt.com says this controller has a 40mhz 68040 ?? ... > I would like you to help me in posting an announcement on the proper > FreeBSD lists and in checking it in. Anyone volunteered for the check-in yet? Has a FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE boot disk been made with the DPT driver? I'm looking at a RAID solution for a freebsd server I'm building. Reliability is important (previous server had an uptime of 209 days before a flaky disk forced a reboot!). Basically, either I use the DPT controller, or a Mylex SCSI-to-SCSI controller connected to a standard PCI controller. The Mylex solution is kinda slow, but since it simply appears as a really big disk connected to your SCSI bus, it is almost guarrenteeed to work with FreeBSD. Anyone else using any kinda of RAID solution with freebsd now? Tom