From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 04:57:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA20473 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 04:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA20466 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 04:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA20951; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 07:55:16 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199512091255.HAA20951@hda.com> Subject: Re: Inodes for news server To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 07:55:15 -0500 (EST) Cc: swaits@pr.erau.edu, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512042048.NAA04302@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 4, 95 01:48:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 2) There is a Compaq SCSI comtroller that has transparent RAID. > There is a driver for FreeBSD, although it hasn't been > integrated. Look at the -hackers list archive, subject > "Re: RAID" for details on the Compaq controller. Software > RAID is pretty much unusable because of [lack of] speed, > although there was talk at one time of altering the AIC-7770 > based controller's sequencer code (since it is home brew > anyway) to support RAID at that level, which would make it > more realistic. There is an NCR RAID controller available that I tried on a different system three or four years ago. You could use it without any kernel work by hooking a serial terminal up to it for maintenance (rebuilding drives, setting RAID level etc) and having it come on line as a huge disk. Sorry I can't give the exact model or availability. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267