Replacing a Mylex AcceleRAID?

[Jo Rhett]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:20:26PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> _ is support for this card (mly driver) improved in newer versions? Is 
> it working ok even on AMD64 platform? Are there any utilities to manage 
> it through the OS?

It currently fails during reboot.  The driver maintainer offered a patch
which didn't work.  I had to switch hardware, and I'm trying to find time
to rebuilt that system for him to test with.

> _ how about going with software RAID? AFAIK there are graid3 (which is 
> not what we want, I guess) and gvinum, but I heard the latter is not 
> quite production ready and/or the documentation is not finished;

gvinum is dead.  geom vinum is SWEEEEET.

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Jo Rhett
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