From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 29 19: 6: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875E437BD44 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:06:07 -0800 (PST) (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 TAA01721; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:04:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003010304.TAA01721@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Lengeling Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:17:14 CST." <38BC6F9A.CF26BAD1@raccoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:04:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I found a source for cheap (versus Adaptec) AMI MegaRAID 428 boards. > Are these boards any good and does the freebsd driver work well with > this board? They are used at $109.00 at www.teamexcess.com. It sounds > like a good deal to me... I've been quite happy with the 428, actually. It's a bit short on CPU power, so don't expect miracles, but the UF80 firmware seems quite reliable, and if you load it up with memory it tools along quite nicely. 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. -- \\ 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-scsi" in the body of the message