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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:24:45 -0400
From:      Troy Arie Cobb <tcobb@staff.circle.net>
To:        'Mike Tancsa' <mike@sentex.net>, Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?
Message-ID:  <AE4A7B7EB10DD4118CBD0050DA196F4F4CC7@FRIGGA>

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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
>   
>   
>   
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