From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 14: 9:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F56C37B407; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9ELKwe01927; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200110142120.f9ELKwe01927@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jerry Murdock Cc: Mike Tancsa , Mike Smith , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server recommendation for co-location. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:26:02 PDT." <20011014202602.98669.qmail@web14609.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:20:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Thanks for the clarification. I'll try to remember this; I'm sure I've been told before. 8/ > 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). I think that Scott was trying to make RAIDframe talk to at least some of the 'AAA'-based cards, of which this is, again I think, an example. The problem is the large software-based RAID engine (hence looking to RAIDframe). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message