From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 18 11:56:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA23003 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22958 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03843; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199609181855.LAA03843@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-Reply-To: <199609181742.KAA07560@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Sep 18, 96 10:42:57 am" To: ulf@Lamb.net (Ulf Zimmermann) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: brandon@glacier.cold.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (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) Or wait 60 to 90 says and get a host based solution from me... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD