[1072] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Mylex DAC960
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Nordberg)
Thu Dec 5 21:40:16 1996
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 21:38:38 -0500
From: Mark Nordberg <mpn@mindspring.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
>The DAC960 is really more of a RAID controller than a general SCSI controller.
>While it can execute SCSI commands, it's capabilities in that area are quite
>limited. I expect that Linux support would be limited to RAID. My perspective
>is that for Linux to work well with the DAC960, we need more than just a driver
>that can talk to the controller. The disk array management software also needs
>to be available. Without that, we'd be forced to boot another operating system
>to perform array management functions. Feel free to disagree with me on this
>point if you don't think it's necessary.
Finally, maybe another real RAID adapter under linux. This would
be an infinite move up in the world for linux. I know that I work
with a lot of big servers that all use raid and run NT or OS/2. I would
love to run Linux on these big servers and really take advantage of
them.
Almost all of them (6+ big server machines) have the DAC960's in them.
Also, I use the raid every day, usually reconfiguring them to work with
separate operating systems on separate drives. I don't use the
operating
system that I run under them to configure them. You boot the dos
configuration
disk and configure them. Certainly it would be nice to have native
software but it really isn't necessary. Other management utilites would
be nice, but not absolutely necessary at first. Working hardware would
be great to run linux on these machines.
--mark
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Mark Nordberg | **Senior Materials Science and
Engineering
mpn@mindspring.com | **NCSU Linux Users Group Chairman
mpnordbe@eos.ncsu.edu |
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