management apps for U320 RAID controllers on 5.3

[Ken Menzel]

Thanks John,   Yes there is /usr/ports/sysutils/aaccli !!!  Looks like 
the 2200S is what I want,  thanks!

Ken


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Von Essen" <john at essenz.com>
To: "Ken Menzel" <kenm at icarz.com>
Cc: <freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: management apps for U320 RAID controllers on 5.3


> 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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