Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 20:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net> To: troy@circle.net (Troy Arie Cobb) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any RAID support anywhere? Message-ID: <199608180313.UAA17470@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960817185724.25160A-100000@demeter.circle.net> from Troy Arie Cobb at "Aug 17, 96 07:00:17 pm"
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> I just spoke with DPT tech support, who very rudely > informed me that THEY had no plans for a FreeBSD driver > for their cacheing raid controller. They have one for > BSDI, though. And as far I remember, they released that BSDI source code. And someone is working on porting it. Maybe look in the list archives > > So, that leads me to this question: is there ANY RAID > controller card that is supported by FreeBSD? Even one > that "pretends" to be a regular SCSI and combines the disks > under one SCSI-ID is fine, so long as it doesn't require me > to go buy a proprietary machine (like Compaq), ugh. I would suggest to look into a SCSI2SCSI Raid solution, like Mylex, CDC and others have it. You are then totaly indepent. > > I'm putting together a kick-ass NFS server and RAID 5 is a > must-have for this. Any pointers, comments, suggestions would > be much appreciated. > > > - troy > > Troy Arie Cobb > troy@circle.net > > ------------------------------------------------------ > | Circle Net, Inc. | global internet access | > | http://www.circle.net | for western north carolina | > | info@circle.net | and beyond... | > | 704-254-9500 | | > ------------------------------------------------------ Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 Lamb Art Internet Services || http://www.Lamb.net/
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