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Date:      Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:29:49 +0300
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RAID spanning over two 2400A's supported?
Message-ID:  <20020421122949.GB18597@myhakas.estpak.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20020420194723.A8156@freebsd.org>
References:  <20020417075728.GA94009@myhakas.estpak.ee> <20020417091401.GC24693@arrakis.tamu.edu> <20020418181822.A32943@oolong.il.thewrittenword.com> <20020420194723.A8156@freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:47:23PM -0400, Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> Interestingly enoguh, the 2400A RAID uses the asr driver and reports 
> itself as Adaptec SCSI RAID. This card works much differently than, say,
> the HighPoint and Promise ATA RAID cards you can get. It has a i960 
> controller on the card and basically reports itself as a SCSI controller to
> the OS. They are nice cards, I set up a FreeBSD box with one of these and 
> four 80GB IBM GXP drives not tool ong ago.

As I understand it, it's basically SCSI RAID controller with some
special firmware which will translate subset of ATA commands to SCSI
and vice versa. Something similar to ATAPI <-> CAM layer translation
in FreeBSD we're all missing 8-)
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
kalts@estpak.ee

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