From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 29 19:14:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034FB37B847; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@futuresouth.com) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA14154; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:14:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:14:27 -0600 From: Tim Tsai To: Mike Smith Cc: John Lengeling , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards Message-ID: <20000229211427.A14103@futuresouth.com> References: <38BC6F9A.CF26BAD1@raccoon.com> <200003010304.TAA01721@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <200003010304.TAA01721@mass.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Are the problems with the 466 boards resolved? Thanks, Tim On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 07:04:04PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > I found a source for cheap (versus Adaptec) AMI MegaRAID 428 boards. > > Are these boards any good and does the freebsd driver work well with > > this board? They are used at $109.00 at www.teamexcess.com. It sounds > > like a good deal to me... > > 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. > > Note that it only does 20MHz ("ultra") 16-bit SCSI; if you're more > interested in reliability than speed it should do you OK. Also note that > as yet we don't have a management interface for this controller family, > so you'll be flying a _little_ blind in eg. degraded/rebuild cases. > > -- > \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message