From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 21 5:29:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from perd1.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77C237B404; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from myhakas.estpak.ee (myhakas.estpak.ee [194.126.115.54]) by perd1.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574F888049; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:29:49 +0300 (EEST) Received: from myhakas.estpak.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myhakas.estpak.ee (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3LCTnC9018809; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:29:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from vallo@myhakas.estpak.ee) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.estpak.ee (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3LCTnmd018808; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:29:49 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:29:49 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Coleman Kane Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID spanning over two 2400A's supported? Message-ID: <20020421122949.GB18597@myhakas.estpak.ee> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <20020417075728.GA94009@myhakas.estpak.ee> <20020417091401.GC24693@arrakis.tamu.edu> <20020418181822.A32943@oolong.il.thewrittenword.com> <20020420194723.A8156@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020420194723.A8156@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:47:23PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > Interestingly enoguh, the 2400A RAID uses the asr driver and reports > itself as Adaptec SCSI RAID. This card works much differently than, say, > the HighPoint and Promise ATA RAID cards you can get. It has a i960 > controller on the card and basically reports itself as a SCSI controller to > the OS. They are nice cards, I set up a FreeBSD box with one of these and > four 80GB IBM GXP drives not tool ong ago. As I understand it, it's basically SCSI RAID controller with some special firmware which will translate subset of ATA commands to SCSI and vice versa. Something similar to ATAPI <-> CAM layer translation in FreeBSD we're all missing 8-) -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message