From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 18:03:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5B216A41F for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:03:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Philippe.Pegon@crc.u-strasbg.fr) Received: from mailhost.u-strasbg.fr (mailhost.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.200.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2056343D5D for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:03:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Philippe.Pegon@crc.u-strasbg.fr) Received: from baal.u-strasbg.fr (baal.u-strasbg.fr [IPv6:2001:660:2402::41]) by mailhost.u-strasbg.fr (8.13.3/jtpda-5.5pre1) with ESMTP id jAOI32kp014614 ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:03:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (crc.u-strasbg.fr [IPv6:2001:660:2402:1001::1]) by baal.u-strasbg.fr (8.13.4/jtpda-5.5pre1) with ESMTP id jAOI324v012974 ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:03:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4385FFED.3050003@crc.u-strasbg.fr> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:01:17 +0100 From: Philippe Pegon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051016) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20051123033644.O1053@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20051123033644.O1053@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1193/Thu Nov 24 12:35:39 2005 on mr8.u-strasbg.fr X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1193/Thu Nov 24 12:35:39 2005 on baal.u-strasbg.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (mailhost.u-strasbg.fr [IPv6:2001:660:2402::158]); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:03:03 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,NO_RELAYS autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mr8.u-strasbg.fr Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:03:06 -0000 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