From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 12:59:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEB937B40C for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 12:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9EKAPe01149; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200110142010.f9EKAPe01149@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server recommendation for co-location. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:49:12 EDT." <4kdgst4irf8nrktldei9ca2mbgrmekecai@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:10:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >The Adaptec controller is basically a DPT (sorry, Adaptec SCSI RAID) > >controller with ATA channels on it. It's not a great device, although > >I'd say that it would a least basically work. > > What driver does it use ? Has anyone tried it ? It uses the 'asr' driver. I believe a few people have been tinkering with it, but I haven't heard any stories. My biggest gripe with it is that I understand they pair drives master/ slave on a single cable, leaving you in a very bad position if one of them dies. Add that to an architecture designed for the heavyweight approach required to do SCSI, and it's just not very elegant. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message