Re: mpt controller: use it to raid, or use raidframe?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 11:37 Uhr +0100 15.01.2009, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> With a mpt SAS controller - should I use raidframe on the individual
> disks (thinking of mirror + hot spares) or use the MPT bios?
>
> (e.g., are there tools to view at least mpt status from NetBSD?)

There's kern/26825 against the parallel scsi version of the adapter. 
While Debian seems to do fine with them in raid 1 mode, I had to 
replace all the mpts in the NetBSD machines with ami megaraid cards.

Unless you want to work on said PR, raidframe might be a better bet.

        hauke

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