From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 16 14:28:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21CB14ED7 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id VAA08362; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:27:52 GMT Message-ID: <3768164D.A67784B4@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:25:33 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Suresh Rajagopalan Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware RAID for FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Suresh Rajagopalan wrote: > > > We don't have a SmartRAID V unit, so I could be speaking out of turn here... > > But, I doub't the BIOS can aid and assist you with a 'live' system, to the > > point of changing hot-swap configurations / drives etc. without restarting the > > O/S (how else are you going to get into the BIOS when a drive has failed > > without restarting? :) > > Has anyone tried using the DPT storage manager for SCO under FreeBSD > ibcs2's emulation? At a guess I'd say that the differences between SCO's drivers and ours would probably squash this outright - the DPT manager software needs very low level access to the DPT, and is probably tied to their driver... I'd be good if someone proved me wrong though... :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message