[1073] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Mylex DAC960
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chai Harjo)
Thu Dec 5 22:32:01 1996
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 14:30:32 +1000
From: Chai Harjo <c.harjo@student.anu.edu.au>
Reply-To: c.harjo@student.anu.edu.au
To: Mark Nordberg <mpn@mindspring.com>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Mark Nordberg wrote:
>
> 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.
>
DPT is supported 100% by Linux :)
You can try SmartRAID IV from FPT, compile the kernel with EATA
support built in. There you go :)
You can get more info from http://www.i-connect.net/~mike/scsi/
Regards,
Chai Harjo
