From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 18 9:45:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D80B37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from search.sparks.net (d-207-5-180-136.gwi.net [207.5.180.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A0243E91 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmiller@search.sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 59182D999; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:39:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5410ED98C; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:39:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:39:28 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Hardware List Subject: Re: Compaq DL380 Raid setting for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20021014111808.T76841-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Francisco Reyes wrote: > What is the recommended Raid setting for a Compaq DL380? > I inheritted a machine which the Raid was setup for "Linux". > It is a 3 disk Raid 5 SCSI. > > I notice sometimes the machine seems to stop for a second when I am doing > some work on the command line. > > The machine does seem to be faster now than when Linux was installed > (based on time it takes to do some PostgreSQL work), but I am wondering if > having the Raid configured for Linux is not causing slowdowns. > > FreeBSD is not listed as a possible setting on the Compaq Raid setup disk. IIRC, we got one of these things working choosing one of the Novell settings, believe it or not. I believe multiple settings would work. In my case there wasn't any "slowdown", it either worked or wouldn't even boot. Hope this helps, --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message