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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:28:13 -0500
From: Andrew Otwell <andrew@networkcomputerz.com>
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To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards
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Actually, the 428 has an alarm feature that'll buzzzzzzzz you to death
in the event of a disk failure. 

Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Note that it only does 20MHz ("ultra") 16-bit SCSI; if you're more
> > > interested in reliability than speed it should do you OK.  Also note that
> > > as yet we don't have a management interface for this controller family,
> > > so you'll be flying a _little_ blind in eg. degraded/rebuild cases.
> >
> > What do you mean by blind?  I won't know when I'm in a degraded state,
> > or I will have to use some DOS/Win tools to do the rebuild?
> 
> You won't know if you're in a degraded mode (unless you look at what your
> drives are doing, or have a SAF-TE enclosure), and if you don't have a
> hot spare, you'll have to use the BIOS tools to instigate a rebuild.
> 
> --
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> \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com
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