From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 11:38:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB52416A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 11:38:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from yggdrasil.interstroom.nl (yggdrasil.interstroom.nl [80.85.129.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DACA43D48 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 11:38:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from ip127-180.introweb.nl ([80.65.127.180] helo=[192.168.1.42]) by yggdrasil with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DbdAi-00086F-00 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 13:38:36 +0200 Message-ID: <429706B5.5030801@axis.nl> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:38:29 +0200 From: Olaf Greve User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.4.1.centos4 (X11/20050323) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Interstroom virusscan, please e-mail helpdesk@interstroom.nl for more information X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Subject: Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:38:39 -0000 Hi, [...] >>2200S. What I'm wondering about is the following: would it be possible >>to use the 2200S as a regular controller for a SCSI DVD rewriter, in >>combination with it running 4 drives in RAID 10 mode? >>The controller has two U320 channels and allows up to 30 devices to be >>connected to it. However, I'm not certain that is assuming RAID only >>set-ups or whether that also allows regular SCSI devices to be >>attached to it... > > Don't do this. Leave only hard disks on the RAID array card. Most > RAID cards only want disk drives on the busses anyway. Tnx, I feared as much...:( Either way: I personally like that separation as well. I have another good Adaptec SCSI controller, but I think it's a bit a pity to 'sacrifice' that just for a DVD burner (it's currently installed in a machine I have specifically set-up as MySQL database stress tester). :P Hmmm, I wonder what good ATA options there are... Otherwise, I guess I'll simply have to add another SCSI controller. Cheers, Olafo