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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:50:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Michael Burns <michael@fasturl.net>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAID 5 controller replacement (DPT/Adaptec SmartRAID IV)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10109081849500.229-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010909003733.A60723@fasturl.net>

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On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Michael Burns wrote:

> ON Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 04:22:36PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: 
> > 
> >   I've had a DPT SmartRAID IV die before.  I popped in a new controllor,
> > hooked up the drive array and turned it on.  Everything just worked.  The
> > DPT controllers store the config in NVRAM and on disk.  If there is no
> > config in NVRAM, and it pull it off the disks.
> 
> Do you know whether the array was RAID 5?

  Yes, it was RAID 5.  I don't really see that the DPT treats logical
disks any differently no matter what the RAID level.  The config goes on
disk regardless.

> 
> -- 
> Michael Burns
> Systems Administrator
> Vener Net Inc.
> michael@fasturl.net
> 
> 

Tom


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