From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Mar 1 11:16:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9B437B920; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:16:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00847; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:16:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003011916.LAA00847@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Chris Dillon Cc: Mike Smith , John Lengeling , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:42:05 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:16:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I've been quite happy with the 428, actually. It's a bit short on CPU > > power, so don't expect miracles, but the UF80 firmware seems quite > > reliable, and if you load it up with memory it tools along quite nicely. > > I couldn't pass that up. I just bought one. Since you're familiar > with this thing and the specs aren't very specific, does this thing > require ECC memory? If not require it, would it at least take > advantage of it? It requires parity memory; I don't believe it would know what to do with ECC memory (ie. would just use one bit for parity). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message