Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:25:33 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware RAID for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3768164D.A67784B4@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990615152953.5919A-100000@hermosa.cinenet.net>
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Suresh Rajagopalan wrote: > > > We don't have a SmartRAID V unit, so I could be speaking out of turn here... > > But, I doub't the BIOS can aid and assist you with a 'live' system, to the > > point of changing hot-swap configurations / drives etc. without restarting the > > O/S (how else are you going to get into the BIOS when a drive has failed > > without restarting? :) > > Has anyone tried using the DPT storage manager for SCO under FreeBSD > ibcs2's emulation? At a guess I'd say that the differences between SCO's drivers and ours would probably squash this outright - the DPT manager software needs very low level access to the DPT, and is probably tied to their driver... I'd be good if someone proved me wrong though... :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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