From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 18 10:42:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA14523 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:42:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (ulf@cat-food.Melmac.org [206.169.44.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA14490 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07560; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:42:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199609181742.KAA07560@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Subject: Re: RAID solutions? To: brandon@glacier.cold.org (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from Brandon Gillespie at "Sep 18, 96 09:50:31 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We are looking to put a RAID array onto a server, and were wondering which > solution would be the best/most cost effective. We have daily incremental > backups, so I doubt the powers that be would be willing to go for a full > blown RAID system--so at this time we are likely looking at a card which > will do a RAID array through the hardware (preferably Level 5). Has > anybody had any experience with this? Any suggestions on which card (and > drives) to get? I'm not exploring the hardware (just fishing for helpful > hints :), but the guy who is mentioned something about an adaptec RAID > card--comments on it? > > Enjoy; > > -Brandon Gillespie > The Adaptec card you talk about is the AHA-3985[W] and Adaptec has not released a handbook for one important chip on that card. I would suggest you look into a SCSI-2-SCSI solution like from CMD or Mylex (and other) Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 Lamb Art Internet Services | http://www.Lamb.net/ | http://www.Alameda.net