From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 29 19:22:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.networkiowa.com (ns1.networkiowa.com [209.234.64.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEDC37BCA9; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:22:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnl@raccoon.com) Received: from raccoon.com (dsl.72.145.networkiowa.com [209.234.72.145]) by ns1.networkiowa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16454; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:25:29 -0600 Message-ID: <38BC8D30.22971D80@raccoon.com> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:23:28 -0600 From: John Lengeling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards References: <200003010304.TAA01721@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message