Re: HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-13 Thread Steve Shockley
On 1/11/2010 8:54 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: ciss and work well in one sentence without a negation involved? I have several, and haven't experienced any problems. To which PR are you referring? I have a bunch of HP hardware here, perhaps I can duplicate the problem and at least see if I can

Re: HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net [2010-01-13 14:34]: On 1/11/2010 8:54 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: ciss and work well in one sentence without a negation involved? I have several, and haven't experienced any problems. To which PR are you referring? I have a bunch of HP hardware

HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
Looking to build a couple of production servers, so I was thinking about heading to the local 'recycled' store for off-lease systems. Only problem is, it's really hard to figure out if the RAID controllers are compatible (e.g. Perc 3 vs. OpenBSD Perc 5); can anyone share any recommendations?

Re: HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-11 Thread Marco Peereboom
Avoid the Adaptec ones which are conveniently also marketed as PERC. Anything = PERC4 should be AMI/LSI based and works. The PERC3 DC/DCL/SC should work too. Again make sure you don't end up with something adaptec (they do have different designations but my memory fails me). Can't comment on

Re: HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-11 Thread Marco Peereboom
Actually the ami list in the man page is pretty exhaustive. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:21:29AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: Avoid the Adaptec ones which are conveniently also marketed as PERC. Anything = PERC4 should be AMI/LSI based and works. The PERC3 DC/DCL/SC should work too. Again

Re: HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Shockley
On 1/11/2010 11:32 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote: Dell 16005C (Perc 3 SC), 4600 (Perc 3 DC-128), 600SC (Perc DAT8) Compaq ML350GB (Smart 532), ML370 G4 (Smart 642) The Compaq/HP Smart 5 and above controllers (ciss) should work well. Note the caveat at the bottom of the man page.

Re: HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-11 Thread Henning Brauer
* Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net [2010-01-12 01:36]: The Compaq/HP Smart 5 and above controllers (ciss) should work well. ciss and work well in one sentence without a negation involved? -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de

Re: HP/Dell RAID

2010-01-11 Thread Sean Kamath
Should. But doesn't? :-) Sean On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net [2010-01-12 01:36]: The Compaq/HP Smart 5 and above controllers (ciss) should work well. ciss and work well in one sentence without a