Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:01:17 +0100 From: Philippe Pegon <Philippe.Pegon@crc.u-strasbg.fr> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ... Message-ID: <4385FFED.3050003@crc.u-strasbg.fr> In-Reply-To: <20051123033644.O1053@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20051123033644.O1053@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Hi .. Hi, > > Having read the man page, there is alot in there that makes me wonder > whether going with a HP Smart Array P600 is a wise idea ... > > "The Compaq ciss adapters require faked responses to get reasonable > behavior out of them. In addition, the ciss command set is by no means > adequate to support the functionality of a RAID controller, and thus the > supported Compaq adapters utilize portions of the control protocol from > earlier" > > I'm specifically looking at the Proliant DL360, which has this card > ... can you provide any comments, or insight, concerning what the man > page states? Should I shy away from this controller? :( We have about thirty HP servers (DL360 and DL380) with FreeBSD 5 and 6, and they seem to work fine with ciss driver. Just this damn bug (kern/83375) which is not related to ciss driver... > > Thanks ... -- Philippe Pegon
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