Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 02:04:42 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Brad Knowles <brad@his.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re(2): DPT SmartRAID IV w/ FreeBSD... Message-ID: <19981110020442.015257@mail.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091632280.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, Nov 9, 1998, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>The dpt(4) man page says:
>
>The dpt driver provides support for the DPT Smart Cache Plus, Smart Cache
> III, Smart Raid III, Smart Cache IV, and Smart RAID IV families of
> procucts.
>
>The Storage Manager will not run under FreeBSD, so keep your DOS boot
>floppy handy. :-(
I appreciate your getting back to me. However, in the meanwhile, the
situation has changed a bit, and now it looks like I'm probably going to
be installing a commercial version of Unix that will support software
RAID as well as growing the filesystem online -- that is, unless you can
tell me how this can be done with FreeBSD (or any other *BSD) or Linux.
>In ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/ there's a doc describing the hardware
>layout. wcarchive is super-slow in responding right now or I'd have the
>full url.
I've seen that article. It's very interesting, but I don't think our
budget will stretch that far.
Besides, I really do like the idea of being able to grow the
filesystem online -- I still have to turn the machine off to put in new
drives, and I'll still do a full backup of the server before I take it
down, but at least I shouldn't be forced to to umount & newfs the RAID
array, and then restore from tape.
Thanks again!
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