using fibre channel drives
Lawrence Farr
freebsd-hw at epcdirect.co.uk
Wed May 7 15:25:27 PDT 2003
Hi,
I've got 10 of these:
scbus2 on isp0 bus 0:
<SEAGATE ST318304FC DC03> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da1)
Running as a Vinum-R5:
/dev/vinum/raid5 143G 2.9G 129G 2% /usr/home
As well as 10 fast squid caches. Runs like a dream!
Lawrence Farr
EPC Direct Limited
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> Bruce Campbell
> Sent: 07 May 2003 20:51
> To: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Subject: using fibre channel drives
>
>
>
> I'll be taking a Network Appliance F720 file server out of service
> within a few months, and will have a large bunch of 18GB and 36GB
> fibre channel drives to play with.
>
> I'm considering FreeBSD and Qlogic with vinum RAID, to get a few
> more years out of these disks.
>
> Does anyone have good/bad experience with FreeBSD/Qlogic, and
> has anyone tried recycling netapp disks ? NetApp puts different
> firmware on the disks, so I don't know whether they still work
> like normal disks.
>
> --
> Bruce Campbell
> Engineering Computing
> CPH-2374B
> University of Waterloo
> (519)888-4567 ext 5889
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