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From: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: Aaptec 3985 controller
To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 05:54:29 +0200 (EET)
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In-Reply-To: <199601182317.PAA11047@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jan 18, 96 03:17:10 pm
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Hello,

# >I just got the bad news from Adaptec that the documents for the AIC-7810 chip,
# >which makes the raid things like XOR, will not public available till the end o
# >f
# >the year. :(
# 
# That sucks, although it doesn't surprise me.  I got the impression the
# 7810 documents wouldn't be availible for a while when I asked for
# them the last time.

	I occasionally have read the manuals of this new adaptec toy,
	and got a strong impression that it becomes RAID with the
	presence of software drivers (analog of 'ccd'?) only.
	Am I missing something?

	And I wonder -- did someone of the FreeBSD engineers try
	to talk with DPT? Their controllers are not too costly,
	but specs seem to be better than Adaptec's. And DPT _are_
	RAIDish, AFAIK.
 
# --
# Justin T. Gibbs
# ===========================================
#   FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
# ===========================================
# 


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