From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 13:26: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14609.mail.yahoo.com (web14609.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39D3337B409 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011014202602.98669.qmail@web14609.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.156.10.164] by web14609.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:26:02 PDT Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerry Murdock Subject: Re: Server recommendation for co-location. To: Mike Tancsa , Mike Smith Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 > 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. > The 2400A is the i960 based card and is a 4 channel/4 drive card. Master/Slave shouldn't come into play. The less expensive 1200A is a 2 channel/4 drive card. To my knowledge there are no FBSD drivers for this card(could be wrong though). Jerry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message