From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 07:27:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8942816A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl (amsfep13-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CA143D1D for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:27:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j.molinger@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.93.208.17]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20040414142751.ETM20221.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@chello.nl>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:27:51 +0200 Message-ID: <407D4A73.9060207@chello.nl> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:28:03 +0200 From: Jeroen Molinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geoff Buckingham , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Mpt raid 1 support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:27:53 -0000 Geoff Buckingham wrote: >Should the mpt driver support the disk mirroring present in some forms >of the controller? It seems to be similar to the ata mirroring in some >chipsets, it provides INT13 level access to the mirror for boot blocks, >but once the OS is running expects the driver to know about the mirror. > >On an IBM x345 with this functionality I break any mirror as soon as I >boot FreeBSD. Could this be worked round with any of the ata mirror >tools? > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com > >Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more >information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging > >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual >sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be >the views of Reuters Ltd. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I have it working with no problems. I create a mirror and hotspare with 3 drives on a IBM X345