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Date:      Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Server recommendation for co-location. 
Message-ID:  <20011014202602.98669.qmail@web14609.mail.yahoo.com>

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> It uses the 'asr' driver.  I believe a few people have been tinkering 
> with it, but I haven't heard any stories.
> 
> My biggest gripe with it is that I understand they pair drives master/
> slave on a single cable, leaving you in a very bad position if one of 
> them dies.  Add that to an architecture designed for the heavyweight 
> approach required to do SCSI, and it's just not very elegant.
> 
The 2400A is the i960 based card and is a 4 channel/4 drive card.  Master/Slave
shouldn't come into play.

The less expensive 1200A is a 2 channel/4 drive card.  To my knowledge there
are no FBSD drivers for this card(could be wrong though). 

Jerry







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