Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:19:23 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004281317330.36296-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000428131619.K40708@pavilion.net>
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Joe Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Mark Powell wrote: > > As the DPT SmartRAID IV controllers are now obsolete, what's the best bet > > for hardware RAID under FreeBSD? From a bit of reading the AMI > > controllers seem to be well featured and regarded. Just how good is the > > support for these controllers in 4.0R? I'm trying to hold off using 4.x on > > any servers until I've used 4.0R for a while to become familiar with it > > and more specifically until 4.1R is released. > > Am I being paranoid or will the AMI controllers and 4.0S be just fine as > > a server? > > Cheers. > > Simon Shapiro's writing an i2o subsystem for 3.x, which supports > the DPT smart raid V card. He's working on support for 4.x, but > it's to there yet. I appreciate the good work Simon and Mike are doing in this area. However, I wanted to know what is the current RAID solution of choice for FreeBSD. As I'm sure you understand I need a proven solution. Cheers. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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