Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:27:18 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <20000428222718.A596@yedi.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <056e01bfb14e$54cefd00$b8209fc0@marlowe>; from swb@grasslake.net on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 03:14:17PM -0500 References: <200004281749.KAA00403@mass.cdrom.com> <056e01bfb14e$54cefd00$b8209fc0@marlowe>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 03:14:17PM -0500, Shawn Barnhart wrote: > | In summary, however, I would at this very moment recommend the Mylex > | adapter family over the AMI family. I'm hoping to bring things to a more > | equitable state in the coming months, but time alone will tell. > > Any idea if OEM'd DAC960s work as well? I have a couple of HP 'HPDA' > controllers, which are actually Mylex DAC960PLs. They mate nicely with the > HP Disk Arrays (5 x 1GB fast SCSI) also cluttering this place. > > When Linux first began supporting the DAC960s, the driver didn't support 2.x > firmware revisions. Mylex were selling upgrades, but they told me mine > wasn't upgradable. I'm not sure if the mention of HP earned me a blanket > "No" or if there really is something 'different' about these. My experience > with other HP OEM'd parts leads me to believe the big difference is in the > sticker on the cache RAM and the BIOS splash text.. Some of the early DAC960s (below a specific buildnr) cannot be upgraded past 2.x firmware. I went through this exercise once with a DEC StorageWorks RAidarray 230 which is also a DAC960 based array. -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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