From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 27 11:18:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D2137B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:18:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58D243F18 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:18:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F5D8C9D30; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:18:20 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:18:20 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Scott Long Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2120s RAID Controller with 4.7-RELEASE ... alternative? In-Reply-To: <3E34AAF6.4080902@btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: <20030127151711.J22851@hub.org> References: <20030126223025.X15704@hub.org> <3E34AAF6.4080902@btc.adaptec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Scott Long wrote: > Yes, this checkin addresses the last known problems in the driver. If you > can update to 4-STABLE, the driver will work. 'K, thanks ... > The 'metadata' is saved on each drive that composes the array. It is also > saved in nvram on the card. When you turn on the machine, the card scans > its scsi busses and compares what it finds to what it has stored, and > configures itself accordingly. If you replace the controller, the new > controller will scan the buses, see the drives and arrays, and configure > itself > to use them. It's designed to be pretty seamless and logical in this > respect. what if the drives are put in under different SCSI ids? does it know how to deal with that as well? I tried it with one of the ZCR cards, and it didn't seem to be able to reconfigure itself for the change in ordering, but I may have not done something right ... ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message