From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 16:41:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10673 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:41:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10631 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11873; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:11:18 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA01977; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:11:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980226111116.53267@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:11:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Sharlot , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID 5 References: <34F3CDCE.4CF1@federal.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34F3CDCE.4CF1@federal.co.uk>; from Matthew Sharlot on Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 07:52:46AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 February 1998 at 7:52:46 +0000, Matthew Sharlot wrote: > Hi, > > I have asked Greg Lehey if he could suggest how to get FreeBSD running > on a RAID 5 array and he has suggested an idea which I have yet to > implememnt. He also mentioned that the adaptec RAID controller that I > have will probably not be supported by FreeBSD. My question is do you > know of anyone who has successfully implemented hardware driven RAID 5, > and if so, what hardware/drivers are they using. At this stage, cost is > not important so if there is any hardware that will work I would love to > know about it. Simon Shapiro has written a driver for the DPT controller. Contact him at for more details. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message