Re: which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-11 Thread William Graeber
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:47, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: You say MegaRAID 8X in response to someone saying mfi? Sorry - I was referring to ami(4) cards in response to general discussion about LSI cards. For clarification, a quick search revealed that some, if not all, mfi(4)

which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-10 Thread Michael
Hi, Am 10.11.2009 07:56, schrieb Daniel Ouellet: Punchline: I had a chat with one of the top techs at this mail system provider, and told him about the OpenBSD experience with Adaptec. He told me they have come to the same conclusion and that their next generation product would have a much

Re: which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-10 Thread Marco Peereboom
mfi, there basically is no competition these days. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:13:20AM +0100, Michael wrote: Hi, Am 10.11.2009 07:56, schrieb Daniel Ouellet: Punchline: I had a chat with one of the top techs at this mail system provider, and told him about the OpenBSD experience with

Re: which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-10 Thread Jeff Ross
Michael wrote: Hi, Am 10.11.2009 07:56, schrieb Daniel Ouellet: Punchline: I had a chat with one of the top techs at this mail system provider, and told him about the OpenBSD experience with Adaptec. He told me they have come to the same conclusion and that their next generation product would

Re: which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-10 Thread Ryan Corder
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:13:20AM +0100, Michael wrote: | quality of Adaptec cards. Any suggestions for a nice and not too | expensive 32/64bit PCI hardware RAID card supporting RAID 5 and maybe | even 6? May I share a similar conversation that I had on this very mailing list, except substitute

Re: which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-10 Thread Noah Pugsley
Ryan Corder wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:13:20AM +0100, Michael wrote: | quality of Adaptec cards. Any suggestions for a nice and not too | expensive 32/64bit PCI hardware RAID card supporting RAID 5 and maybe | even 6? May I share a similar conversation that I had on this very mailing

Re: which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-10 Thread William Graeber
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:37, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: mfi, there basically is no competition these days. I currently have a MegaRAID 8X, and the 48-bit LBA limits logical drives to 2TB. I can't speak for the other LSI offerings, but this would definitely be something to check

Re: which raid card? [was: aac raid status]

2009-11-10 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:37, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: mfi, there basically is no competition these days. I currently have a MegaRAID 8X, and the 48-bit LBA limits logical drives to 2TB. I can't speak for the other LSI offerings, but this would definitely be something to

aac raid status

2009-11-09 Thread Michael
Hello, is there currently a way to read the status of aac raids, like if it is degraded or rebuilding? All I get, after rebuilding the kernel with aac enabled, is some very basic info, since aac0 isn't integrated into bio. But maybe there is some other tool? # bioctl sd0 sd0: Adaptec, Container

Re: aac raid status

2009-11-09 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Michael, aac0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 Adaptec ASR-2200S rev 0x01: Dell CERC-SATA apic 3 int 0 (irq 10) Trash your aac(4) hardware and use softraid(4). At least that's what i'm doing right now. For details, see my postings in the misc@ archives a few years back. In a nutshell: insufficient

Re: aac raid status

2009-11-09 Thread Nick Holland
I got a story to tell. I've been meaning to sit down and write it up and send it to advocacy@, but since you bring it up aac(4), I'm going to tell it here, as it is very much an aac(4) story. Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hi Michael, aac0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 Adaptec ASR-2200S rev 0x01: Dell

Re: aac raid status

2009-11-09 Thread Tomáš Bodžár
I think, that this will be really good post for Undeadly On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: I got a story to tell. B I've been meaning to sit down and write it up and send it to advocacy@, but since you bring it up aac(4), I'm going to tell it

Re: aac raid status

2009-11-09 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Punchline: I had a chat with one of the top techs at this mail system provider, and told him about the OpenBSD experience with Adaptec. He told me they have come to the same conclusion and that their next generation product would have a much better (by OpenBSD standards) manufacturer for the