On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:11:43PM -0700, Pawel S. Veselov wrote: > Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >stan wrote: > >> > >>That's actually not a given IFIRK Sun says the RAID on the 2100's > >>is "Windows only". > >> > > > >Interesting! I didn't read that. Must have skip my reading then > >somehow. The choice are in the BIOS to enable it. I didn't buy two > >drives as it was for testing only, so I can't say if it would work or > >not for sure, or if it would be supported in OpenBSD or not. No clue. > > > >If there is feedback as to it should be supported, not only in > >Windows, and some are interested to know if it does or not, I could > >buy an other drive and try it. Not that I will need two drives for > >what this baby will be use in. > So, what's the controller in x2100 ? In v65x it was a u320 aic79xx, > Adaptec only provides Windows drivers for it, and is not so willing > to share with the microcode needed to support built-in RAID. > Someone also mentioned that enabling these kind of RAIDs is of > little use, since they put almost the same strain on the CPU, making > it run controller's microcode. > > Why Sun picks that kinda hardware for it's servers, is another kinda > question.... But the controller manufacturers play evil here... > > > Thanks, > Pawel.
Well, I just found about a half-dozen of these machines in the back room... It's not easy to get to, but the RAID controller is an NVidia nf4-ultra-n-a3; I didn't see any sort of EEPROM or SRAM chip to hold metadata. From what I've heard, there are only Windows drivers available. -Damian
