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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.

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