From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 08:44:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04495 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from superior.truenorth.org (ppp016-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA04476 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.truenorth.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id IAA20090; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:43:17 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199702211643.IAA20090@superior.truenorth.org> Subject: Re: Raid Controller Support In-Reply-To: <199702211513.QAA10429@icemserv.folkwang.uni-essen.de> from Thomas Neuhaus at "Feb 21, 97 04:13:00 pm" To: neuhaus@folkwang.uni-essen.de (Thomas Neuhaus) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:43:15 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hello everyone, > >For some reason I need to set up a RAID system which does striping and >error-correction. (I guess this is RAID-5) and would like our >FreeBSD-box to host it. At the moment we still use 2.1.5 here. My questions >are: > >Does any of the later versions (2.2?) of FreeBSD support RAID-COntrollers >like the Adaptec 3985? > >If so, can we build a RAID5 system based on that controller and FreeBSD? >IŽd like FreeBSD to see just a huge disk of some 20 GB and have the >controller do the rest incl. error checking and signalling. > >Does anybody have experience with a setup like that (or has or does know >about any other *working* configuration)? > >Thanks in advance for any hints, > >Thomas > DPT (http://www.dpt.com) has a line of SCSI RAID controler that I have been told are pretty good. Their web site has device drivers, in source, for BSDI and Linux. Perhaps you would be interested in doing a device driver for FreeBSD ? Josef -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses