From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 07:28:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA05294 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 07:28:11 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA05286 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 07:28:03 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA04125; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:25:03 +0800 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:25:03 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Mark Dawson cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Mark Dawson wrote: > > It has a couple of megs of battery-backed memory, two fast scsi-2 > controllers and does various levels of RAID on upto 14 hot-pluggable > disks - it screams along at RAID 0 and the nv-ram gives reliable async > performance. Switching to RAID 5 makes it really bullet-proof. Nice... what is the status of your RAID support in FreeBSD? I imagine you need some software to control the striping, placement of ECC slices, etc. (does RAID-5 include all that?) I'd *love* to try out one of these in a RAID config on a news server. :) > I have written a FreeBSD driver for this EISA card which is running very > happily on a Compaq Proliant 2000 (and hopefully soon a Proliant 1500). > Let me know if you're interested! Hrm... does it come in PCI flavour? Sounds like an interesting product that we should promote for FreeBSD. Perhaps your driver can go in the experimental branch for others to try. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org