Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:22:34 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004281332430.36321-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000428081704.03735e30@mail.sentex.net>
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 01:11 PM 4/28/2000 +0100, Mark Powell wrote: > > >Yep, 0,1,5,10 and 50 are the only levels we may require. Some sort of > >FBSD management utility would be useful, although unlikely? > > Its there for the Mylex... e.g. > See the man page for mlxcontrol. The config from scratch isnt there yet, That's acceptable. Not really necessary anyhow. > but the rebuild/status/check is etc is... > > newmail# mlxcontrol check mlxd0 > newmail# mlxcontrol status mlxd0 > mlxd0: online [consistency check: 8223936/8273920, 0% complete] > newmail# mlxcontrol status mlxd0 > mlxd0: online [consistency check: 3345472/8273920, 59% complete] > newmail# That's just what's needed. > >I already have an old DAC960 which I may test. However, I'd like others > >opinions. I'm sure more testing than I could ever hope to do has already > >been done. > > www.dejanews.com/usenet. Choose power search, use *freebsd* for the form, > and try mylex or megaraid for the keywords... Search through and see what > people have said. Cheers, I didn't know the mailing lists made it onto Deja. I find the official search facility lacking. > > > could artificially wedge it under high load. There have been new patches > > > to the driver, so its possible the problem has been fixed, but I havent > > had > > > time to test that. > > > >Does anyone on the list know if this has been fixed? > > This was discussed recently. IIRC, one said yes, one said no. Hmmm. The Mylex controllers are looking more attractive. > > > For us the plan is to replace our main production > > > servers with 4.x as soon as we have the time to do it with Mylex cards > > > where appropriate. > > > >Are you moving to the Mylex cards just because of the above problem, or > >something else? > > Partly the above problems (we have a need to move ahead now), but mostly > because we havent been able to crash the driver with whatever artificial > load we threw at it. That's my problem too. We are currently ordering a machine, but have been told the SmartRAID IV controller is no longer available. Still pondering over the AMI or Mylex cards <sigh> Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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