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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:44:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.interworks.org>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, gquinlan@qmpgmc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Adaptec AAA-131CA
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Daniel M. Eischen wrote:

> Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Daniel M. Eischen wrote:
> >
> > > The AAA-131 should be supported as separate aic7xxx controllers,
> > > though.  You'll need CAM as they are 7890-based.  The AAA-131
> > > series is similar to the AHA-3985 where there are multiple
> > > 78xx chips on the controller.
> >
> > So ... they will actually work and show the disk(s) as an array, or as
> > separate disks?
> 
> As separate disks, just as if you had multiple 2940 controllers
> in your system (in this case, they'd be 7890-based though).
> 
> I'm sorry I missed the original question; I wasn't sure if
> the poster wanted [hardware] RAID support, or if seeing
> the drives as separate disks was good enough.  There's always
> ccd for RAID 0, too.

So, in other words, it's an expensive 7890-based card with unsupported
RAID features?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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