Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:52:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "William A. Maniatty" <maniatty@aztec.cs.albany.edu> Cc: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk>, "'Edwin Culp'" <eculp@encontacto.net>, "'Paul Chvostek'" <paul@it.ca>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, eric@fnordsystems.com, maniatty@cs.albany.edu Subject: Re: Server recommendation for co-location. Message-ID: <200110110052.f9B0q1Y05191@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "William A. Maniatty" <maniatty@aztec.cs.albany.edu> of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:22:50 EDT." <200110110022.f9B0MoA03001@aztec.cs.albany.edu>
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> Ack! I just specified a system with a 3ware card for my lab's file > server based on storagereviews recommendation. I think I'm going to > have to ask for a substitution and get the adaptec for 4x40 GB ATA 100 drives You should probably just substitute a 6000 series 3ware controller. > Since word on the street is 3ware is out of the controller business, > is Adaptec the only HW ATA raid game in town (2400A series) for my setup? > If so does the Adaptec controller have known problems? If someone can kick the relevant details out of Promise, I'm sure that something could be done with their 6-port controller, but in the meantime yes, Adaptec is the only game in town. The Adaptec controller is basically a DPT (sorry, Adaptec SCSI RAID) controller with ATA channels on it. It's not a great device, although I'd say that it would a least basically work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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