From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jan 19 09:38:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA01255 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:38:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabal.io.org (cabal.io.org [198.133.36.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01249 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:38:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by cabal.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA01396; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:35:38 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:35:37 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: "Andrew V. Stesin" cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aaptec 3985 controller In-Reply-To: <199601190354.FAA22288@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Andrew V. Stesin wrote: > > 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. This would be more productive in the meantime, while Adaptec beats around the bush some more. Linux already has DPT drivers, so there is at least a code base from which to work. I'd love to drop one of those controllers in with a 64MB cache and run news on it... -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"