Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:48:42 -0500 From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> To: Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT & RAID 5 Message-ID: <19981103194842.A19317@palomine.net> In-Reply-To: <363F96D7.25951531@eaznet.com>; from Eddie Fry on Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 04:50:47PM -0700 References: <363F96D7.25951531@eaznet.com>
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On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 04:50:47PM -0700, Eddie Fry wrote: > I have recently purchased a PM2144UW and a RC4040 from DPT and wish to > use it as a RAID5 controller under FreeBSD. Has anyone else done this? > If so, what method did you use to set uo the adapter? Any pitfalls or > areas of concern? I've got a PM3334UW and it's working very well under FreeBSD 2.2.7. There are, however, definitely pitfalls and areas of concern. When I initially tried to install FreeBSD, newfs, when run from sysintall, would hang when formatting a 6.5GB partition. As per the suggestion of someone on the freebsd-questions list, I initially installed on partitions of 1GB or smaller, and then relabelled and re-newfsed things to get the sizes I wanted. It's worked flawlessly for me ever since. Apparently there are also problems with newer versions of the firmware. If you search the archives of the freebsd-questions list, you'll find a lengthy message posted a week or so ago by Simon Shapiro (who wrote the DPT driver) detailing some of the pitfalls and what you can do about them. I just found the message. You'll find it at this URL (make it fit on one line): http://www.dejanews.com/=zzz_maf/dnquery.xp?search=thread&svcclass=dnserver&recnum=%3cXFMail.981026204544.shimon_simon-shapiro.org@ns.sol.net%3e%231/1 Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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