Subject: Re: disk speed query
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/13/2005 11:17:35
Am 12.05.2005 um 22:55 Uhr +0100 schrieb Patrick Welche:
>sd2 at scsibus2 target 0 lun 0: <LSILOGIC, RAID ARRAY IS, 1000> disk fixed
>sd2: 136 GB, 139712 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 286130176 sectors
>
>is 2 x 73GB disks, so striped.
That's RAID 0, then - striped, not mirrored.
> I suppose it is possible that the disks
>were set up by some Windows programme rather than that BIOS?
Unlikely, as the controller presents the two disks as one to the OS
(NetBSD above).
>Have any of you had success with mpt(4) with such an array?
Not really -- see PR kern/26825.
FWIW, we've replaced the mpt in one of the machines with a
single-channel megaraid (amr(4)), and the box (web- & mailserver) has
been running fine since.
hauke
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