Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:18:47 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com> Cc: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT & RAID 5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9811041616430.27367-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <36407BDF.EC2D2842@eaznet.com>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Eddie Fry wrote: > Oh, have you had any drives go bad in your array? How was the recovery process? That's a good question! During some testing here, the rebuild goes fine, but there are two problems: - You have to be in the same room as the machine to hear it beeping so you know there's a failure. - You have to boot into the dos util that comes with it to initiate the rebuild. If there's a way to do this without the DOS step, I'm all ears... Charles > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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