From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 31 13:53:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (www.slackware.com [204.216.27.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F151E37B606 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 13:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00980; Wed, 31 May 2000 13:56:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005312056.NAA00980@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Simon" Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 15:25:17 EDT." <200005311326.HAA02697@mail.fpsn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:56:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Mike, > > It's true. I've been trying to get one for 2 months now. No one has them. Attached is the letter from Mylex regarding this > card. Well, going by the letter, I'd get the AcceleRAID 150. The 170 isn't supported yet (I don't have one, and I'm not ready with the firmware support), unfortunately. > -Simon > > On Wed, 31 May 2000 12:18:49 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> Hi! > >> > >> Now that Mylex no longer makes AcceleRAID 250 controllers > > > >I'm not aware of Mylex abandoning this product; can you point me to a > >reference on this? I would recommend this adapter over anything else at > >the moment. > > > >> can someone recommend a reliable, low cost, U2/U160 RAID controller > >> card? I considered AMI MegaRAID Express 300, but then people told me that > >> there are known issues with its drivers for FreeBSD. > > > >The AMI MegaRAID cards had issues with the driver in FreeBSD 4.0, but > >this has been remedied in -stable. I'm working with AMI to get better > >management for these cards supported, but it's going to be a little while > >yet. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message