On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:09:50PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:

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> 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?

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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