Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:23:28 -0600 From: John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards Message-ID: <38BC8D30.22971D80@raccoon.com> References: <200003010304.TAA01721@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > I found a source for cheap (versus Adaptec) AMI MegaRAID 428 boards.
> > Are these boards any good and does the freebsd driver work well with
> > this board? They are used at $109.00 at www.teamexcess.com. It sounds
> > like a good deal to me...
>
> I've been quite happy with the 428, actually. It's a bit short on CPU
> power, so don't expect miracles, but the UF80 firmware seems quite
> reliable, and if you load it up with memory it tools along quite nicely.
>
> Note that it only does 20MHz ("ultra") 16-bit SCSI; if you're more
> interested in reliability than speed it should do you OK. Also note that
> as yet we don't have a management interface for this controller family,
> so you'll be flying a _little_ blind in eg. degraded/rebuild cases.
What do you mean by blind? I won't know when I'm in a degraded state,
or I will have to use some DOS/Win tools to do the rebuild?
johnl
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