From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 20:57:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA06572 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 20:57:23 -0700 Received: from oasis.txdirect.net (oasis.txdirect.net [204.57.120.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA06554 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 20:57:17 -0700 Received: (from rsnow@localhost) by oasis.txdirect.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA14332; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 22:57:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 22:57:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@oasis To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID solutions for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199510030319.UAA07283@aslan.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >> A software RAID in FreeBSD? Don't make me drool. > >> > >> -Jerry. > > > >I saw a Adaptec 3985 for $500 in misc.????.cards.forsale > >Supposed to have 3 SCSI channels, and so on. > > > >Might be the easiest for FreeBSD since we have such good Adaptec support. > > Yeah well I don't think it would be. Basically I'd have to write a > RAID[1-5] implementation (or most of it) down at the SCSI sequencer level > for that card, and Adaptec doesn't have *any* technical info about the > 3985 availible at the moment. Well, I guess thats pretty much from the horses mouth. :-) > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== > > ______________________________________________________________________ Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org