Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:20:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server recommendation for co-location. Message-ID: <200110142120.f9ELKwe01927@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:26:02 PDT." <20011014202602.98669.qmail@web14609.mail.yahoo.com>
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> > It uses the 'asr' driver. I believe a few people have been tinkering
> > with it, but I haven't heard any stories.
> >
> > My biggest gripe with it is that I understand they pair drives master/
> > slave on a single cable, leaving you in a very bad position if one of
> > them dies. Add that to an architecture designed for the heavyweight
> > approach required to do SCSI, and it's just not very elegant.
> >
> The 2400A is the i960 based card and is a 4 channel/4 drive card.
> Master/Slave shouldn't come into play.
Thanks for the clarification. I'll try to remember this; I'm sure I've
been told before. 8/
> The less expensive 1200A is a 2 channel/4 drive card. To my knowledge there
> are no FBSD drivers for this card(could be wrong though).
I think that Scott was trying to make RAIDframe talk to at least some of
the 'AAA'-based cards, of which this is, again I think, an example. The
problem is the large software-based RAID engine (hence looking to
RAIDframe).
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