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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:22:50 -0000 
From:      paul@originative.co.uk
To:        jgrosch@mooseriver.com, gsutter@pobox.com, richard@pegasus.com
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: List of supported RAID controllers ?
Message-ID:  <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FE03@octopus>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josef Grosch [mailto:jgrosch@mooseriver.com]
> Sent: 03 February 1999 08:17
> To: Gregory Sutter; Richard Foulk
> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: List of supported RAID controllers ?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:28:04PM -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 03:47:49PM -1001, Richard Foulk wrote:
> > > } > One other thing to keep in mind is that most any 
> SCSI-SCSI RAID controller
> > > } > is supported.
> > > } 
> > > } Right, I forgot to mention that.
> > > } 
> > > } > I believe they're using a Mylex SCSI-SCSI RAID controller on
> > > } > ftp.cdrom.com.
> > > } 
> > > } Correct.  It's a Mylex DAC960SXI.  The other Mylex 
> controllers are
> > > } real RAID controllers, however, and not currently supported.
> > > } 
> > > 
> > > SCSI-SCSI RAID controllers are real RAID too.
> > > 
> > > And preferrable to the non-portable, non-standard kind, IMO.
> > 
> > Right.  I frequently use AVIstor (Infortrend) RAID controllers with
> > Seagate Cheetah hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration, all 
> hanging off
> > an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter.  Combined with Softupdates, 
> it creates
> > the fastest disk filesystem I've ever used.
> 
> I'll second that. I know this configuration very well and I 
> can also say
> that the above setup on a K6-2 300mhz with 256 Meg of ram is amazingly
> fast. Like a complete make world in just under 2 hours.

A little off topic but that is not particularly fast. A 450Mhz PII, 128Mb
RAM  and a single 18Gb Cheetah can do it in around 50mins.

Paul.

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