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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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