Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:14:21 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca> To: "Jim King" <king@sstar.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000428151421.02505bf0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <004d01bfb141$96fb5eb0$a44b8486@jking> References: <200004281749.KAA00403@mass.cdrom.com>
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At 01:43 PM 4/28/00 -0500, Jim King wrote: >Mike Smith 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. > >Are there any particular Mylex models to avoid, or that are highly >recommended? Some of the older non-Ultra DAC960's are priced attractively >on eBay. msmith is obviously the authority on this, but I have been using DAC960PL and the DAC960P/PD both bought on ebay actually with good results. More verbose output below.... mlx1: DAC960P/PD, 1 channel, firmware 3.51--48, 4MB RAM Hardware ID 0x03020101 Firmware ID 0x30043303 Configured/Actual channels 1/1 Max Targets 16 Max Tags 2 Max System Drives 32 Max Arms 8 Max Spans 4 DRAM/cache/flash/NVRAM size 4194304/3014656/262144/8192 DRAM type 0 Clock Speed 40ns Hardware Speed 280ns Max Commands 63 Max SG Entries 17 Max DP 256 Max IOD 765 Max Comb 304 Latency 45s SCSI Timeout 6s Min Free Lines 32 Rate Constant 50 MAXBLK 128 Blocking Factor 1 sectors Cache Line Size 16 blocks SCSI Capability 20MHz, 16 bit Firmware Build Number 0 Fault Management Type 1 and mlx0: DAC960PL, 1 channel, firmware 3.51--48, 32MB RAM Hardware ID 0x03020102 Firmware ID 0x30043303 Configured/Actual channels 1/1 Max Targets 16 Max Tags 2 Max System Drives 32 Max Arms 8 Max Spans 4 DRAM/cache/flash/NVRAM size 33554432/32178176/262144/8192 DRAM type 0 Clock Speed 40ns Hardware Speed 350ns Max Commands 63 Max SG Entries 17 Max DP 256 Max IOD 765 Max Comb 304 Latency 19s SCSI Timeout 6s Min Free Lines 32 Rate Constant 50 MAXBLK 128 Blocking Factor 1 sectors Cache Line Size 16 blocks SCSI Capability 10MHz, 16 bit Firmware Build Number 0 ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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