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Date:      Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:18:05 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
To:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 2400A
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109151315230.39634-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010915030610.A69138@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>

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> > It is stated at
> > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=AAR-2400A&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fRAID+for+Entry-Level+Servers+or+Workstations
> > that Adaptec 2400A is supported under FreeBSD. Does anybody know how good
> > is driver and management tool?
> > 
> The card performs reasonably well for being an ATA controller, and the driver
> is mature and well tested.  It's harder for me to comment on the management
> apps since I never saw what was on the final CD.  At the very minimum it
> should have a CLI tool and a Motif-based GUI for FreeBSD.  If you're lucky,
> it will have a Java-based GUI for FreeBSD also.  The only thing I don't
> like about the card is that you cannot hot-plug the drives.

Scott, thanks for your reply!
Do you know does Adaptec plan to produce ATA RAID controllers for more
than 4 disks? If I use RAID5 & hot spare, only 2 of 4 disks are left for
the data -- not very efficient...

A.


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