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this. Basically: software RAID is done in software (within the OS or a driver) and hardware RAID is done on chip.
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I don't understood why on SPARC-Platforms have not present RAID-Controller ? Sorry for my bad english, but it's crazy always setup software RAID !!! I whanna Hardware RAID and when i can find solution ? (7 Replies)
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2. Solaris
Hi,
I have t5120 sparc and I have 2 146 G drives in the system. I will be installing solaris 10 and also want the system mirrored using Hardware RAID "1"
The System did come preinstalled as it comes from sun. I did not do much on it.
I booted system using boot cdrom -s
gave format... (6 Replies)
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3. Solaris
Hi,
I have a root with hardware RAID on c0t0d0 and c0t2d0. I would like to set the boot device sequence in OBP for both hdds.
I have checked in ls -l /dev/rdsk/ for the path of c0t2d0 but it does not exist. Can anyone shed some lights on this?
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0.... (12 Replies)
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4. Solaris
Hi,
I have a question. Do LiveUpgrade supports hardware raid?
How to choose the configuration of the system disk for Solaris 10 SPARC?
1st Hardware RAID-1 and UFS
2nd Hardware RAID-1 and ZFS
3rd SVM - UFS and RAID1
4th Software RAID-1 and ZFS
I care about this in the future to take... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bieszczaders
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5. Hardware
Hi all
I've just received my T3-1. It has 8 disks and I would like to configure RAID1 on the disks. The Sun documentation states that you can either use the OpenBoot PROMP utility called Fcode or you can use software via the Solaris OS.
The documentation doesn't make it clear if:
1. The... (6 Replies)
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6. Solaris
Server Model: T5120 with 146G x4 disks.
OS: Solaris 10 - installed on c1t0d0.
Plan to use software raid (veritas volume mgr) on c1t2d0 disk.
After format and label the disk, still not able to detect using vxdiskadm.
Question:
Should I remove the hardware raid on c1t2d0 first?
My... (4 Replies)
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7. Solaris
We have hardware RAID configured on our T6320 server and two LDOMs are running on this server. One of our disk got failed and replaced. After replacemnt the newly installed disk not detected by RAID controlled so Oracle suggested to upgrade the REM firmware. As this is the standalone production... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: rock123
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8. Solaris
Dear All ,
we have hardware raid 1 implemented on Solaris Disks.
We need to patch the Servers. Kindly let me know how to patch hardware raid implemented Servers.
Thanks...
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Discussion started by: jegaraman
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9. Solaris
Dear All ,
Pl find the below command ,
# raidctl -l
Controller: 1
Volume:c1t0d0
Disk: 0.0.0
Disk: 0.1.0
Disk: 0.3.0
#
raidctl -l c1t0d0
Volume Size Stripe Status Cache RAID
Sub Size ... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: jegaraman
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mvsata
MVSATA(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual MVSATA(4)
NAME
mvsata -- Marvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II SATA controllers driver
SYNOPSIS
mvsata* at pci? dev ? function ?
DESCRIPTION
The mvsata driver supports the Marvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II family of SATA controllers, interfacing the hardware with the ata(4) and
atapi(4) subsystems.
The following controllers are supported by the mvsata driver:
Adaptec RAID 1420SA
Adaptec RAID 1430SA
Marvell 88SX50xx Hercules-I
Marvell 88SX60xx Hercules-II
Marvell 88SX70xx Hercules-II
Triones Technologies RocketRAID 2310 RAID card
The 88SX60xx and later support Native Command Queuing. The 88SX70xx also supports ATAPI.
SEE ALSO
ata(4), atapi(4), pci(4), wd(4)
HISTORY
The mvsata driver first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.
AUTHORS
The mvsata driver was written by KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara@kk.iij4u.or.jp>.
BUGS
SATA Native Command Queuing is not yet supported.
Device hot swapping is not yet supported.
ATAPI is not yet tested.
Marvell's Software RAID is not yet supported by the
ataraid(4) driver. raid(4) can be used instead.
BSD
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