On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:34 +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > Yousef Raffah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to install a new server which has a hardware RAID controller. > > Hardware RAID controllers such as amr(4) or twe(4) (I've seen LSI > MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 and 3Ware Escalade 8006-2 LP, the latter is a 2-port > SATA controller and can't do RAID5 for lack of ports) stuff usually > presents a whole logical unit as a single SCSI drive (/dev/da0 for the > first disk array, /dev/da1 for the second and so on), so you shouldn't > need vinum, geom or anything like that - just the driver would suffice. > > If you need vinum or geom to implement a RAID then chances are your > so-called "hardware RAID" is actually fake (fakeraid) and really > software RAID. Adaptec "HostRAID" and the RAID in intel's ICH x-R > chipsets falls into this fakeraid category. The vendors don't like to > present it as software RAID, so that particular bit is extremely hard to > find :-( > > What is the brand and model of your so-called hardware RAID? > The machine is a compaq server with Smart RAID controller
-- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com
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