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Date:      Tue, 04 Jun 1996 14:09:42 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
To:        Brian Bartholomew <bb@wizard.pn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Chris Watson <scanner@webspan.net>
Subject:   Re: RAID systems for freebsd 
Message-ID:  <199606042109.OAA23611@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 04 Jun 96 16:57:37 -0400. <199606042057.QAA18176@auntiem.pn.com> 

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>> Im looking into getting a raid system for us were running all
>> FreeBSD cans here. Management wants one so were getting one.. I
>> would MUCH rather keep it an all fbsd camp i dont want an NT or
>> anyother garbage on my lan.  Is there ANY RAID controlles and
>> subsystems supported by freebsd or BSDI

>If freebsd has the drivers, I can recommend the DPT Scsi cards based
>on my experience with them in Interactive Unix boxes.  These will do
>mirroring at the controller level.  See also
>http://stampede.cs.berkeley.edu/ccd/ for mirroring at the OS level.

There is not a DPT driver "yet".  It will come in time.  If you need
to get something this month, don't count on it.

On the other hand, you can do "RAID" 0 in software.  Do a "man ccd" on
any fairly recent FreeBSD or NetBSD box.  I use ccd on my NetBSD box
at home, and it works just great.  Performance won't be as good as
you'd get with a DPT controller, but it works right now.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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