Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:56:52 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: <vallo@matti.ee>, "Jaime Kikpole" <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Is ServeRAID supported? Message-ID: <042e01befeda$86e2f8e0$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909130725140.3047-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> <19990913175142.A42660@myhakas.matti.ee>
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Hi,
I have found a post in the files (11 Aug) that says that Keith Mitchell
(kmitch@guru.org) its working in a driver for the IBM ServeRAID Controller,
but I dont know if he stills working in it or dont, I have sent an e-mail to
him asking this, but he hasnt answered the mail, I have actually 8 Netfinity
5500 servers running WinNT and I want to migrate this services to FreeBSD,
also Im going to receive 4 more of this servers in two months, but my
company wont approve buying another card for the servers, and I really love
to have this card working with FreeBSD, he said something about asking for
the driver to IBM, and depending on the people asking for this, it will be
available.
For those who want to see the original post:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=117921+121023+/usr/local/www/db/
text/1999/freebsd-scsi/19990815.freebsd-scsi
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
To: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Is ServeRAID supported?
> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:30:25AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole
<jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all. I'm thinking about buying a NetFinity 5000 to act as a
> > file/web/email server. The problem is, with over 200 simultaneous
> > NetATalk connection expected, I need RAID support. I haven't even used
> > SCSI on FreeBSD before, let alone RAID! :) So anyway, this should be
> > interesting.
> >
> > Specifically, a salesman who's been quite open to the idea of
> > running an open source OS suggested the IBM ServeRAID-3L to me. He said
> > something that suggests that he actually looked through the web site and
> > found that it was supported under FreeBSD, but I can't find that page.
> > Can anyone confirm or deny that this card will work (with RAID 5
> > abilities) under FreeBSD 3.2? If not, can anyone recommend a good RAID
5
> > SCSI controller with a cache?
>
> IBM ServeRaid adapters aren't supported :(
> I think you can go with NF5000 embedded dual-channel UW-SCSI adapter
> (AIC-7895P) and use vinum for mirroring or striping (or both). Vinum is
> logical volume manager or so-called software RAID. Anyway, in the case
> you need more disk performance you can i.e. stripe four disks. Look at
> vinum(8).
> --
>
> Vallo Kallaste
> vallo@matti.ee
>
>
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