Re: Intel SRCU42L

[Manon Goo]

Says taht this is a rebranded gdt (www.icp-vortex.de) Card
I am quite shure that this will work with the gdt driver

Manon


--On 20. Februar 2006 22:34:03 +0200 Edgars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


So, nobody knows? :(


Hello!
I want to know about this RAID controller, is it supported or no?
On hw page i didn't find him, but in google and monkey.org i found that
somebody tried it with OpenBSD 3.4
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/raid/srcu42l/index.htm






Manon Goo

Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[Alexey E. Suslikov]

waa-haa-haa! :))

looks like Intel does it's job "well": sales different cards
based on different vendors' chipsets under the same brand.

anyway, gdt(4) is supported too. with minus of bioctl.

my dmesg for SRCU42X can be found here

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=111667421201209&w=2

so one can just look briefly on chip: GC80302 found on SRCU42X
is LSI and will be ami(4).

Federico, what chip is on your SRCU42L?

Federico Giannici wrote:

We have a couple of PCs with Intel SRCU42L that are recognised as "gdt0" 
with OpenBSD AMD64 3.8 GENERIC. And they work perfectly.


Here it is the relevant part of the dmsg:

gdt0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Intel GDT RAID" rev 0x00: irq 5 dpmem 
eff0 2-bus 1 cache device

gdt0: ver 222, cache on, strategy 2, writeback on, blksz 32
gdt0: raw feat 1 cache feat 101
scsibus0 at gdt0: 35 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0:  SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 139941MB, 17840 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 286599600 sec 
total

scsibus1 at gdt0: 16 targets
scsibus2 at gdt0: 16 targets


Bye.



Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:


browse archives: any information about any LSI-based controller
would apply to your SRCU42 as it is LSI by nature.

edgarz wrote:


Thanks Alexey :)
Maybe you have expirience with this controller? I'm interested in 
performance of this model :)


Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello Stuart,
Thanks for your reply. Yes i was looking on DELL servers too, but 
here is one BUT :) DELL server i must buy from shop, but other 
servers i can get from starage, difference in prices is about 
15-20% :) But i will look for separate PERC RAID controller :) And 
btw, are they comaptible with any manufacturers server, or only 
with DELL?
I didn't see that posts about intel RAID controllers, sounds good 
for me. :)

Thanks :)






If you read 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=srcu42l&q=b
Diego says SRCU42L works ok for him. But I think that you should 
continue to

look for an LSI card if you can - bioctl is useful.






Intel SRCU42L is just a rebagged LSI card, so SRCU42X is ami(4).

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/ami_pci.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&f=h 

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[Federico Giannici]

We have a couple of PCs with Intel SRCU42L that are recognised as "gdt0" 
with OpenBSD AMD64 3.8 GENERIC. And they work perfectly.


Here it is the relevant part of the dmsg:

gdt0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Intel GDT RAID" rev 0x00: irq 5 dpmem 
eff0 2-bus 1 cache device

gdt0: ver 222, cache on, strategy 2, writeback on, blksz 32
gdt0: raw feat 1 cache feat 101
scsibus0 at gdt0: 35 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0:  SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 139941MB, 17840 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 286599600 sec 
total

scsibus1 at gdt0: 16 targets
scsibus2 at gdt0: 16 targets


Bye.



Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:

browse archives: any information about any LSI-based controller
would apply to your SRCU42 as it is LSI by nature.

edgarz wrote:


Thanks Alexey :)
Maybe you have expirience with this controller? I'm interested in 
performance of this model :)


Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello Stuart,
Thanks for your reply. Yes i was looking on DELL servers too, but 
here is one BUT :) DELL server i must buy from shop, but other 
servers i can get from starage, difference in prices is about 15-20% 
:) But i will look for separate PERC RAID controller :) And btw, are 
they comaptible with any manufacturers server, or only with DELL?
I didn't see that posts about intel RAID controllers, sounds good 
for me. :)

Thanks :)





If you read 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=srcu42l&q=b
Diego says SRCU42L works ok for him. But I think that you should 
continue to

look for an LSI card if you can - bioctl is useful.





Intel SRCU42L is just a rebagged LSI card, so SRCU42X is ami(4).

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/ami_pci.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&f=h 








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Re: Intel SRCU42L

[Alexey E. Suslikov]

browse archives: any information about any LSI-based controller
would apply to your SRCU42 as it is LSI by nature.

edgarz wrote:


Thanks Alexey :)
Maybe you have expirience with this controller? I'm interested in 
performance of this model :)


Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello Stuart,
Thanks for your reply. Yes i was looking on DELL servers too, but 
here is one BUT :) DELL server i must buy from shop, but other 
servers i can get from starage, difference in prices is about 15-20% 
:) But i will look for separate PERC RAID controller :) And btw, are 
they comaptible with any manufacturers server, or only with DELL?
I didn't see that posts about intel RAID controllers, sounds good for 
me. :)

Thanks :)




If you read 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=srcu42l&q=b
Diego says SRCU42L works ok for him. But I think that you should 
continue to

look for an LSI card if you can - bioctl is useful.




Intel SRCU42L is just a rebagged LSI card, so SRCU42X is ami(4).

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/ami_pci.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&f=h 

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[edgarz]

Thanks Alexey :)
Maybe you have expirience with this controller? I'm interested in 
performance of this model :)


Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello Stuart,
Thanks for your reply. Yes i was looking on DELL servers too, but here 
is one BUT :) DELL server i must buy from shop, but other servers i 
can get from starage, difference in prices is about 15-20% :) But i 
will look for separate PERC RAID controller :) And btw, are they 
comaptible with any manufacturers server, or only with DELL?
I didn't see that posts about intel RAID controllers, sounds good for 
me. :)

Thanks :)



If you read 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=srcu42l&q=b
Diego says SRCU42L works ok for him. But I think that you should 
continue to

look for an LSI card if you can - bioctl is useful.



Intel SRCU42L is just a rebagged LSI card, so SRCU42X is ami(4).

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/ami_pci.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&f=h 

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[Alexey E. Suslikov]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello Stuart,
Thanks for your reply. Yes i was looking on DELL servers too, but here 
is one BUT :) DELL server i must buy from shop, but other servers i can 
get from starage, difference in prices is about 15-20% :) But i will 
look for separate PERC RAID controller :) And btw, are they comaptible 
with any manufacturers server, or only with DELL?

I didn't see that posts about intel RAID controllers, sounds good for me. :)
Thanks :)



If you read http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=srcu42l&q=b
Diego says SRCU42L works ok for him. But I think that you should continue to
look for an LSI card if you can - bioctl is useful.


Intel SRCU42L is just a rebagged LSI card, so SRCU42X is ami(4).

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/ami_pci.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&f=h

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[edgarz]

Hello Stuart,
Thanks for your reply. Yes i was looking on DELL servers too, but here 
is one BUT :) DELL server i must buy from shop, but other servers i can 
get from starage, difference in prices is about 15-20% :) But i will 
look for separate PERC RAID controller :) And btw, are they comaptible 
with any manufacturers server, or only with DELL?

I didn't see that posts about intel RAID controllers, sounds good for me. :)
Thanks :)

Stuart Henderson wrote:

Hi Edgars,

On 2006/02/20 23:10, Edgars wrote:


LSI will be available only in summer, here is only adaptecs, ibm and intel RAID 
controllers :(



If it's not possible to buy from another country, you might try
looking for Dell PERC cards, which are rebranded LSI. You could try
these companies:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/contact/edb/latvia

Fujitsu-Siemens also use LSI raid controllers (though I think Dell
might be easier to find in Latvia).

If you read http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=srcu42l&q=b
Diego says SRCU42L works ok for him. But I think that you should continue to
look for an LSI card if you can - bioctl is useful.
 
$ sudo bioctl sd0

Volume  Status Size   Device
 ami0 0 Online   799929270272 sd0 RAID5
  0 Online   199982317568 0:0.0   noencl 
  1 Online   199982317568 1:0.0   noencl 
  2 Online   199982317568 2:0.0   noencl 
  3 Online   199982317568 2:1.0   noencl 
  4 Online   199982317568 3:0.0   noencl 

Stuart

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2006/02/20 22:34, Edgars wrote:
> So, nobody knows? :(

You waited only half a day, which doesn't give people much time to
respond. Choose one of these options:

- Relax and wait a while, though by repeating the question you
made it less likely you'll get an answer.

- Search better. There are posts to misc@ that tell you whether or not
it works.

- Try one and see.

- Buy something that is listed as supported.

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[David Hill]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:34:03PM +0200, Edgars wrote:
> So, nobody knows? :(
> 
> > Hello!
> > I want to know about this RAID controller, is it supported or no?
> > On hw page i didn't find him, but in google and monkey.org i found that 
> > somebody tried it with OpenBSD 3.4
> > http://www.intel.com/design/servers/raid/srcu42l/index.htm
>

Why not just install OpenBSD and see?  If you are considering buying it,
I would consider otherwise.  Buy something known to be supported.

David

Re: Intel SRCU42L

[Edgars]

So, nobody knows? :(

> Hello!
> I want to know about this RAID controller, is it supported or no?
> On hw page i didn't find him, but in google and monkey.org i found that 
> somebody tried it with OpenBSD 3.4
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/raid/srcu42l/index.htm

Intel SRCU42L

[edgarz]

Hello!
I want to know about this RAID controller, is it supported or no?
On hw page i didn't find him, but in google and monkey.org i found that 
somebody tried it with OpenBSD 3.4

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/raid/srcu42l/index.htm