From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 28 7:25: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from frigga.circle.net (morrigu.circle.net [209.95.64.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46CB37B885 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcobb@staff.circle.net) Received: by FRIGGA with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:24:46 -0400 Message-ID: From: Troy Arie Cobb To: 'Mike Tancsa' , Mark Powell Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:24:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can't find this in 4.0-STABLE, cvsup'd just a few days ago. Can anyone point me to this tool? - Troy > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike@sentex.net] > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 8:23 AM > To: Mark Powell > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? > > > At 01:11 PM 4/28/2000 +0100, Mark Powell wrote: > > >Yep, 0,1,5,10 and 50 are the only levels we may require. > Some sort of > >FBSD management utility would be useful, although unlikely? > > Its there for the Mylex... e.g. > newmail# mlxcontrol > Unknown command '(null)'. > Valid commands are: > status displays device status > rescan scan for new system drives > detach detach system drives > check consistency-check a system drive > rebuild initiate a rebuild of a dead physical drive > config examine and update controller configuration > help give help on usage > newmail# > See the man page for mlxcontrol. The config from scratch > isnt there yet, > but the rebuild/status/check is etc is... > > newmail# mlxcontrol check mlxd0 > newmail# mlxcontrol status mlxd0 > mlxd0: online [consistency check: 8223936/8273920, 0% complete] > newmail# mlxcontrol status mlxd0 > mlxd0: online [consistency check: 3345472/8273920, 59% complete] > newmail# > > > > > You might want to pick up a Mylex and a AMI off of > E-Bay cheap and test > > > them out for your self. > > > >I already have an old DAC960 which I may test. However, > I'd like others > >opinions. I'm sure more testing than I could ever hope to > do has already > >been done. > > www.dejanews.com/usenet. Choose power search, use > *freebsd* for the form, > and try mylex or megaraid for the keywords... Search > through and see what > people have said. > > > > > I have been using 4.x for our internal Squid proxy > > > with great results. I didnt have problems with the AMI > card, except > > that I > > > could artificially wedge it under high load. There > have been new patches > > > to the driver, so its possible the problem has been > fixed, but I havent > > had > > > time to test that. > > > >Does anyone on the list know if this has been fixed? > > > This was discussed recently. IIRC, one said yes, one said no. > > > > > For us the plan is to replace our main production > > > servers with 4.x as soon as we have the time to do it > with Mylex cards > > > where appropriate. > > > >Are you moving to the Mylex cards just because of the > above problem, or > >something else? > > Partly the above problems (we have a need to move ahead > now), but mostly > because we havent been able to crash the driver with > whatever artificial > load we threw at it. > > ---Mike > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message