management apps for U320 RAID controllers on 5.3

[John Von Essen]

Ken,

If you want RAID then dont use the 39320, use something like the 2200S or
2120S U320 Raid Controllers. The 2200S supports an optional battery
module. Those cards use the new aac driver. The olrder U160 Raid cards
used the asr, but they the new U320 use the aac. I forget which one worked
with the raid utilities, but I have a felling its the aac.

-john


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Ken Menzel wrote:

> Hi,
>   We have always used adaptec asr style controllers with asr-utils
> package and scripts written to remotely monitor the raid using the
> command line raidutil program.  We are now looking to do this with
> Ultra320 drives and FreeBSD 5.3.  Can anyone recommend a controller
> that has or will have U320 support and tools to monitor/manage the
> arrays in FreeBSD 5.x?  We have a database application, that updates
> often and needs a high speed caching RAID controller.  We have used
> RAID 10 in the past.
>
> I was considering an Adaptec 39320A-R, it uses the 'ahd' driver but I
> can't seem to find a toolset for managing and monitoring.Will the
> LINUX "Adaptec Storage manager v2.12" RPM run under FreeBSD?   What is
> the difference between "HostRAID" and "non-HostRAID"?! I am open to
> suggestions,  I can't find much info on the Adaptec web site, except
> that FreeBSD is not a supported OS.  I am also considering one of
> Dell's PERC controllers which I assume would use the aac-cli tool set.
> I saw some-one already asked  similar questions about IBM serveRAID
> with regards to ZCR,  I am not sure it would be wise to assume all
> things to be equal with U320 controllers!
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice on 5.3 and U320 tools!
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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