From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 4 08:17:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17624 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 08:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from amber.eaznet.com (amber.eaznet.com [216.19.20.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17614 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 08:16:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie@eaznet.com) Received: from eaznet.com (admin.eaznet.com [216.19.20.16]) by amber.eaznet.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18479; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:22:40 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36407BDF.EC2D2842@eaznet.com> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 09:07:59 -0700 From: Eddie Fry X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Johnson CC: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT & RAID 5 References: <363F96D7.25951531@eaznet.com> <19981103194842.A19317@palomine.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris, thanks for the help! Now, if I can just get everything installed, updated, and restored in less than 8 hours... Oh, have you had any drives go bad in your array? How was the recovery process? Eddie Chris Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 04:50:47PM -0700, Eddie Fry wrote: > > I have recently purchased a PM2144UW and a RC4040 from DPT and wish to > > use it as a RAID5 controller under FreeBSD. Has anyone else done this? > > If so, what method did you use to set uo the adapter? Any pitfalls or > > areas of concern? > > I've got a PM3334UW and it's working very well under FreeBSD 2.2.7. There are, > however, definitely pitfalls and areas of concern. When I initially tried to > install FreeBSD, newfs, when run from sysintall, would hang when formatting a > 6.5GB partition. As per the suggestion of someone on the freebsd-questions > list, I initially installed on partitions of 1GB or smaller, and then > relabelled and re-newfsed things to get the sizes I wanted. It's worked > flawlessly for me ever since. > > Apparently there are also problems with newer versions of the firmware. If you > search the archives of the freebsd-questions list, you'll find a lengthy > message posted a week or so ago by Simon Shapiro (who wrote the DPT driver) > detailing some of the pitfalls and what you can do about them. > > I just found the message. You'll find it at this URL (make it fit on one line): > > http://www.dejanews.com/=zzz_maf/dnquery.xp?search=thread&svcclass=dnserver&recnum=%3cXFMail.981026204544.shimon_simon-shapiro.org@ns.sol.net%3e%231/1 > > Chris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Eddie Fry EAZNet Internet Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message