Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 07:52:20 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RocketRaid133 Message-ID: <200202120652.g1C6qKV51735@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20020212050542.GA785@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>
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It seems Scott Long wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:30:08PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 11:18 PM 2/11/2002 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > >I know :) the problem is that it is a driver *just* for the highpoint > > >cards, whereas the ATA RAID driver support both Promise & Highpoint > > >cards, even in the same machine :) > > > > > > BTW, how close the Adaptec 2400A and the RocketRaid 404 ? The HighPoint > > website alludes to the fact that Adaptec uses the same chips. Looking at > > the Adaptec 1200 it seems very similar to the 372. > > > > The Adaptec 2400A is processor-based, with HighPoint 370 chips hanging off > the back end. It is a totally different animal, really. The 1200A is just > a rebranded single HighPoint 370. > > None of Soerens's work, nor the ata subsystem, will talk to the 2400A. The > asr driver will. Much like the Promise SuperTRAK which I do have drivers for, but it is also not using the ATA driver, its an intelligent board. However, this latest ATA-RAID project is supposed to bring all that nice RAID funtionality to the simple controllers like the Promise Fasttraks and the Highpoint boards... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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