[5979] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: FC-AL support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fredrik Lundholm)
Tue Feb 23 04:05:30 1999
From: Fredrik Lundholm <exce7@ce.chalmers.se>
In-Reply-To: <199902110828.JAA04497@mehl.gfz-potsdam.de> from Steffen Grunewald at "Feb 11, 99 09:28:52 am"
To: steffen@gfz-potsdam.de (Steffen Grunewald)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:57:03 +0100 (MET)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> BTW: someone knows how so-called host-independent RAID controllers
> work ? (especially the ones Raidtec offers) Will it be possible to
> bypass the controller and access a disk itself ?
Well I thought most so called FC-AL raid controllers just were a bunch
of disks. This is tha case for Sun A5000/A5200, somewhat the case for
Sun SSA and the transtech disk-racks.
This implies the use of a volume manager that does striping, mirroring,
parity for you.
>
> Steffen
/wfr/
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Fredrik Lundholm
exce7@ce.chalmers.se
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