From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 21:16:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0E337BC6C for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA25859; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:16:21 -0700 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:16:21 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Anthony Bourov Cc: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT Raid controller support In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000606200529.02913c80@mail3.addr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have DPT 3334/2 cards and run one as a RAID-5 and one as a RAID-0. After a few major failures and tweaking with kernel compile options they both work flawlessly. I'd recomend them mainly because they are increadibly easy to configure with the manager they provide, they will stay on the phone with you forever if you have a problem and will walk you through a recovery if need be or any other issue you may have. I'm a bit confused by your naming of RAID IV and V and VI I didn't know there was a RAID-6 or are you specificly talking about DPT's convention of naming their products like that? I suppose some people do call a RAID-0 a RAID-6 from time to time, or did I miss something in the raid world completely. If you mean DPT's convention of naming their product with the IV V VI scheme. I can tell you that 7 months or so ago when I purchased these controllers that a IV was the only thing that would work for me. You may want to probe a bit and find out how far the DPT drivers have come in the last 6-7 months. As of FreeBSD 3.4-stable, the drivers have worked great for my 3334/2's but I'm not so sure about the DPT V series of controllers. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm ================================= On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Anthony Bourov wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering, the hardware.txt sais that FreeBSD only completely > supports DPT raid controller (so that you can also boot off it). And only > RAID IV and lower, which our manufacturer said isn't being sold anywhere > anymore. Now, it specifically sias it doesn't support RAID V, but now dpt > also has RAID VI, where they specifically say they support FreeBSD and > BSDi. I obviously wouldn't trust them enough to order the full server, so I > was wondering if anyone has any idea if that is true or not, and also if > anyone can recommend what raid solutions are good for high-end FreeBSD usage... > > Thanks, > Anthony > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message