From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jul 2 15:10:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18821 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org ([209.86.126.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA18743 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@nomis.Simon-Shapiro.ORG) Received: (qmail 21179 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jul 1998 22:10:44 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199807022152.XAA26473@surf.IAE.nl> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 18:10:44 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: wjw@IAEhv.nl Subject: Re: Using a DPT controller, pros and cons Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Jul-98 Willem Jan Withagen wrote: ... > Well, als long as I decide that I've messed with my system, and I'm > relatively shure that I never got to the writing stage of my OS. Then > I see no problem. Remember that I once was saved by optimal.exe because I > had a wire crossed and ended up with 2 clients for ID 6: tape and disk. > Otherwise I would have lost the data that I wanted to backup in the first > place. I did not say optimal.exe is useless. I used it more than once! BTW, it is broken, as it only works in certain MB, DPT, firmware combinations. I am going to add it to the DPt driver. Then it will be an option in dptcntl. ... > Just out of curiosity I would be interested in what a DPT set would cost: > controller > cabinet for 5 disks > 4*4Gb disks in canister > cables I belive the shelf for 8 disks is about $2,300, the disks 9in a canister are about $100 over mail order prices. The shelf comes with one cable and two powersupplies, and two fans and an automatic differential/SE interface and two terminators. But I may be wrong a bit. > We've had this discussion when I was still running 7h0 7H0 was sick in this depratment and several others. > => 3.0-current has certain utilities. I will provide more once the > migration > => to CAM and the initial release of the 5th generation controllers is > out. > > Is it possible to back-port these to 2.2-STABLE? Or does it require too > much > changes to the way you interface with the card? The changes are rather streightforward. The card interface is essentially identical. The difficulty arises from the close ties /dev/dpt has to the HAS work I am working on. Even worse is the certification process. Before I will release this code, I need to spend several weeks in regression testing. I simply do not have the time right now. There is pressure to move the DPT driver to CAM, and to continue with the HAS work. ... > I have some stuff in a DPT/tools directory, but they do not seem to work. > First I had to change from major devno 130 to devno 88, but still no go. > I'm starting to wonder if my mirror of your DPT directory is still > operational? Where do you currently keep your FreeBSD work? The major number is a NOP. The latest work is in ftp://simon-shapiro.org/crash. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message