Yes I had considered using the onboard hardware raid, but I don't
particularly trust it. I also need the ability to rebuild my arrays
while the machine is online and was hoping to be able to do the 3 disk
RAID1 offered by OpenBSD softraid. Do you know if bioctl(8) is capable
of controlling the onboard raid controller, or will I need to do all
raid rebuilds via the hardware raid bios on the T4?
On 12/28/17 08:58, Adam Thompson wrote:
On 2017-12-26 14:56, Jordan wrote:
I've recently gotten my hands on a couple shiny new SPARC T4-1 and
T3-1 servers and I was looking to install OpenBSD with a softraid
mirror on them for production use. The problem is, is that I end up
with this upon following the install instructions and rebooting:
FWIW...
AFAIK every single T4-1 (probably T3-1s but not certain) is capable of
hardware RAID-0/1/10 on the SCSI controller, and that's how they're
shipped from Sun/Oracle even when running Solaris. I'm not absolutely
certain that it's supported by OpenBSD, but I do recall seeing that it
could be used as-is when I was investigating running OpenBSD on my
T-series gear. There's Oracle documentation on how to access the
on-card firmware to set up and manage the RAID set in a pre-OS situation.
YMMV. Unfortunately, both of mine are still running Solaris so I
can't confirm right now.
-Adam
