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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:55:08 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mutex Records USA <mut3x@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dpt scsi smartraid iv controller, in raid 5 mode... ?
Message-ID:  <19990818085508.N7187@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990817111003.89448.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Mutex Records USA on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:10:03AM -0700
References:  <19990817111003.89448.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Tuesday, 17 August 1999 at  4:10:03 -0700, Mutex Records USA wrote:
> i have read conflicting reports of dpt raid iv controllers, running in a
> raid 5 configuration - some people say they work well, others have alluded
> to a hardware bug that dpt admits to -

I haven't heard of any bugs.  I have heard suggestions that the RAID-5
performance is even worse than RAID-5 has to be, but I don't have much
in the way of evidence.

> while other people have said that dpt support doesn't know about the
> raid iv drivers.

I suppose that depends on who you get at DPT support.

> also there is rumor of support for the raid v card 'soon'.

Yes.  There is a rumour.

> please excuse the hotmail acct :/

I will.  My mail system won't :-)

Greg
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