Re: Sun Netra Disk Arrays

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From: Edd Barrett
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 4:09 am

Hi there,

I'm just looking at some disk arrays on ebay, the netra range from sun
are reasonably priced. For example the Netra st D130.

Has anyone tried using this kind of thing with OpenBSD? The "official"
way to configure these kits is via the SSM software for solaris. Is
there a way to do this with bioctl or some other tool in OpenBSD, or
will I be limited to straight forward non-raid disk access?

Thanks

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Edd

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From: Stuart Henderson
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 4:37 am

that one is just a disk box/psu (maybe also ses, I don't remember
and mine had to go on a customer Windows box in a hurry so I can't
check)

you need a separate raid controller (mpi?), or use softraid
or raidframe.

From: mickey
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 4:48 am

it;s just a plain scsi box.
all three drives show up as plain devices on the host scsi bus.
thus in conjunction w/ netra t1 one gets 5-drives (or 8 w/ two
of those d130 thingies) on one scsi bus.
quite good for a software raid thingie...
cu
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    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)

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