From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 17 20:13:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09868 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 20:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (root@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net [206.169.44.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09862 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 20:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA17470; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 20:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199608180313.UAA17470@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Subject: Re: Any RAID support anywhere? To: troy@circle.net (Troy Arie Cobb) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 20:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Troy Arie Cobb at "Aug 17, 96 07:00:17 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just spoke with DPT tech support, who very rudely > informed me that THEY had no plans for a FreeBSD driver > for their cacheing raid controller. They have one for > BSDI, though. And as far I remember, they released that BSDI source code. And someone is working on porting it. Maybe look in the list archives > > So, that leads me to this question: is there ANY RAID > controller card that is supported by FreeBSD? Even one > that "pretends" to be a regular SCSI and combines the disks > under one SCSI-ID is fine, so long as it doesn't require me > to go buy a proprietary machine (like Compaq), ugh. I would suggest to look into a SCSI2SCSI Raid solution, like Mylex, CDC and others have it. You are then totaly indepent. > > I'm putting together a kick-ass NFS server and RAID 5 is a > must-have for this. Any pointers, comments, suggestions would > be much appreciated. > > > - troy > > Troy Arie Cobb > troy@circle.net > > ------------------------------------------------------ > | Circle Net, Inc. | global internet access | > | http://www.circle.net | for western north carolina | > | info@circle.net | and beyond... | > | 704-254-9500 | | > ------------------------------------------------------ Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 Lamb Art Internet Services || http://www.Lamb.net/