Dell PERC 3si ... raid 1+0 possible ?

[Scott Long]

Scott Long wrote:
> Joe Schmoe wrote:
> 
>> I would like to configure four physical disks as
>> follows:
>>
>> two mirrored volumes, and then create a stripe set out
>> of the two mirrored volumes.  This is raid 1+0, I
>> believe.  So I would end up with only one logical disk
>> that FreeBSD would see, and it would be 1/2 the size
>> of the total size of the four disks.
>>
>> Can the PERC 3si do this ?
>>
>  > Further, is there command support in the FreeBSD CLI
>  > to maintain and rebuild raid 1+0 volumes ?
>  >
>  > Thanks you.
>  >
> 
> You want to do this on a sparc64 machine?  The aac driver
> will not work on big-endian machines right now.  If that gets
> fixed then I guess there is nothing that would prevent it from
> working.  However, there is no boot support (I worked on an
> OpenBoot BIOS for a little while but never finished it) and
> there is no management support.  The CLI that I did for FreeBSD
> is closed-source and only for i386.  You can always create the
> array on an i386 system and move it to the sparc64 system, but
> you won't have any way to manage it.  The good news is that things
> like spare activation happen entirely in the card and not in the
> driver or management app.
> 
> Scott

Man, I don't know what drugs I'm on, I read this off of the wrong list.
Yes, the PERC3/si will work with FreeBSD on i386 and amd64.  Sorry for
confusing things with 'sparc64'.

Scott