Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-29 Thread Noah Pugsley
For example: # bioctl arc0 Volume Status Size Device arc0 0 Online 199336448 sd0 RAID6 0 Online 500107862016 0:0.0 noencl ST3500320AS SD15 1 Online 500107862016 0:1.0 noencl ST3500630AS 3.AAG 2 Online 500107862016 0:2.0

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Monday 27 October 2008, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: Hi, I'm looking SATA controller with h/w RAID support which is working on OpenBSD and has: - minimum 4 SATA ports (internal preferably) - Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 - Hot swap (not a must) - PCI bus - large drives support

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:14:50PM +, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: Hi, I'm looking SATA controller with h/w RAID support which is working on OpenBSD and has: - minimum 4 SATA ports (internal preferably) - Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 - Hot swap (not a must) - PCI bus -

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread Don Jackson
On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: Have a look at the man -k RAID output. Especially arc(4) and ami(4) are great SATA RAID controllers on OpenBSD. Does OpenBSD's arc(4) driver support any method to report RAID status and/or failures? If not, then how is an admin

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Franklin
Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: Have a look at the man -k RAID output. Especially arc(4) and ami(4) are great SATA RAID controllers on OpenBSD.

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread Don Jackson
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Robert Franklin wrote: Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. I did, and I'm not seeing anything. It does talk about this: -a alarm-function Control the RAID card's alarm functionality, if supported. alarm-function

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:26:11PM -0700, Don Jackson wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Robert Franklin wrote: Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. I did, and I'm not seeing anything. It does talk about this: -a alarm-function Control the RAID

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-10-28, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Robert Franklin wrote: Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. I did, and I'm not seeing anything. ... arc supports alarm control and monitoring of volumes configured on the

Re: Serial ATA raid

2006-10-02 Thread Francois Slabbert
LSI is cheaper anyway, so I'll steer away from the intel. Daniel Ouellet wrote: David Gwynne wrote: On 29/09/2006, at 11:09 PM, Francois Slabbert wrote: hi misc, i'm looking to purchase a sata raid controller, and have shortlisted it down to two models for no particular reason other than

Re: Serial ATA raid

2006-09-30 Thread David Gwynne
On 29/09/2006, at 11:09 PM, Francois Slabbert wrote: hi misc, i'm looking to purchase a sata raid controller, and have shortlisted it down to two models for no particular reason other than the controllers being supported by openbsd, being 'afordable',compatible with the equipment i

Re: Serial ATA raid

2006-09-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
David Gwynne wrote: On 29/09/2006, at 11:09 PM, Francois Slabbert wrote: hi misc, i'm looking to purchase a sata raid controller, and have shortlisted it down to two models for no particular reason other than the controllers being supported by openbsd, being 'afordable',compatible with the

Re: Serial ATA raid

2006-09-29 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hello, I'm using the lsi controller and it works nice for me. $ sudo bioctl -h ami0 Volume Status Size Device ami0 0 Online 699G sd0 RAID5 0 Online 233G 0:0.0 noencl SAMSUNG SP2504C VT10 1 Online 233G 0:1.0

Re: Serial ATA raid

2006-09-29 Thread marrandy
On Friday 29 September 2006 09:09, Francois Slabbert wrote: hi misc, i'm looking to purchase a sata raid controller, and have shortlisted it down to two models for no particular reason other than the controllers being supported by openbsd, being 'afordable',compatible with the equipment i

Re: Serial ATA raid

2006-09-29 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:09:50PM +0200, Francois Slabbert wrote: hi misc, i'm looking to purchase a sata raid controller, and have shortlisted it down to two models for no particular reason other than the controllers being supported by openbsd, being 'afordable',compatible with the

Re: Serial ATA raid

2006-09-29 Thread Berk D. Demir
Joachim Schipper wrote: I understand LSI comes highly recommended by people who should know. Intel SRCS16 and LSI MegaRAID SATA controllers both attached by ami(4) driver. LSI is known to produce above the average equipment so they can be desired. OTOH, Intel is not just another