From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jun 16 21:12:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA21434 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA21422; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wdpaP-0002yO-00; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:09:41 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:09:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Simon Shapiro cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , FreeBSD-SCSI@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcement: New DPT RAID Controller Driver Available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > Hi Tom Samplonius; On 17-Jun-97 you wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > ... > > > The driver supports the PM3334{U,W,D} which is a PCI controller > > > sporting a 68030 processor, up to 3 SCSI ultra-wide-differential > > > busses. It is also available (I think) as narrow, non-ultra and > > > definitely single-ended. > > > > www.dpt.com says this controller has a 40mhz 68040 ?? > > I know it is an abomination to have a Motorola processor in a computer > dominated by the holy Intel processor. But, in case you can stomach the > idea for a while, it actually works well. Nope, the point was making was that you say the board has a 68030, while www.dtp.com says it is a 68040. The 68040 has quite a bit more kick than a 68030. That's a good thing. The 68000 series was always a good line. Plenty of integrated devices use them. > Those of you who insist that their computer is maintained purely Intel will > be glad to know that (as I am told), the next generation will have an i960 > instead. The i960 is not necessarily better. Especially, not the gutless 20mhz version. DPT might be better off with the 68060, as long as the price is right. ... > find the support, the configuration utilities (in native mode!), the > perfomance and the complete integration (You will get a beep, console > output, syslog, SNMP event and a can of diet soda whacked on the head every > time: ... > b. Fan failure in the disk enclosure > c. Power supply failure How does this work? Do you need to buy DPT enclosures for this? I don't have a DPT enclosure :(, and it doesn't seem that DPT makes rack mount enclosures. > If you have a spare disk plugged in, you will also get aotomatic re-build > of the array. Oh, did iI mention all power supplies are redundant and all > disks are hot pluggable without any software intervention? Again these all sound like features in the hardware module? I just use standard hot-swap modules (Dataport VI). FreeBSD gets mighty confused when you pull a drive while it is running, but the modules are mighty handle for any kind of field replacement. Are power supplies a big deal these days? I've never had a good PS2 supply die, but have had 4 drives die, all in last three years. Tom