Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:56:31 -0400 From: <lists@brenius.com> To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mylex RAID to Asus Symbios SCSI Card Message-ID: <001101c1f6b1$4db3ae30$7b01a8c0@afi> References: <000e01c1f5da$0500aad0$7b01a8c0@afi> <200205080648.g486mt728189@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Mylex RAID to Asus Symbios SCSI Card > Hi! > > [Replacing Mylex RAID adapter with Symbios SCSI adapter] > > > I have a question on this. Is it even possible? I don't know the > > details, but I seem to remember that each controller writes to the disk > > in its own way so that another controller type (different brand of SCSI > > controller) won't be able to read the disk or use it. > > My thoughts exactly. Maybe if the disks on old controller were > configured as JBOD (no RAID) it would work, but if they were > configured as RAID array then I think that only the Mylex adapter is > able to adequately read the partition(s) on the array. I was hoping to use one of the disks, then format the second one and just go from there. In short, I would like to tell FreeBSD there is no more RAID and there is a new regular SCSI controller. I`ll have to look up JBOD, never heard of it. :) Regards, D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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