On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:20:07AM +0200, Vim Visual wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not concerned about the library, I'm almost sure it'll work in
> OpenBSD -it was written to be very portable-; it's the raid controller
> what will finally be the key to the OS... I forgot to give details,
> sorry. It's an Areca Raid Controller arc-1220
Well, arc(4) suggests that a lot of similar controllers are supported;
so I'd hold out hope for the future. It *might* even be the case that it
'just works', but you'll have to ask someone who has a clue about
hardware (dlg@ wrote the driver, so should know).
> Yes, the OS is not that important, the cluster will not have a public
> IP and is already sitting behind a firewall (don't ask me which one,
> please, it's a RHL one, it was not my personal choice) and I've got
> obsd installed on my laptop to do the data analysis of the results but
> I was looking forward to having obsd on the cluster...
>
> Today I'll boot the cd and see whether the controller is configured...
Well, if your library runs on OpenBSD, it's almost certainly possible to
get the rest working. You can almost certainly get the RAID card to
function as plain IDE or something similar, which means you can boot and
play around.
A RAID card is quite useful, though, so I wouldn't recommend sticking
with an OS that doesn't support it. (Alternately, I'd recommend picking
a RAID card that the OS supports.)
Joachim
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