From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 7 14:36:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dozer.skynet.be (dozer.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B17B14E5B for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:36:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.21.69] (dialup581.brussels.skynet.be [195.238.21.69]) by dozer.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id XAA06976; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:36:10 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200001072210.AA10196@newlgn49.unx.sas.com> References: <200001072210.AA10196@newlgn49.unx.sas.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:33:20 +0100 To: Brad Chisholm , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC-364 RAID controller support Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:10 PM -0500 2000/1/7, Brad Chisholm wrote: > The Adaptec card looks like it might provide a superior solution. What's > best way to proceed when trying to get documentation support from vendors? Look long and hard at software solutions with vinum before you wed yourself to a particular hardware RAID controller. At the very least, I'd encourage you to extensively benchmark all the candidate solutions in your environment, before you make a choice. You can see my own benchmarks that I've done so far at . -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message