Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:50:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards Message-ID: <200003010350.TAA02184@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:23:28 CST." <38BC8D30.22971D80@raccoon.com>
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> > 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.
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> 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?
You won't know if you're in a degraded mode (unless you look at what your
drives are doing, or have a SAF-TE enclosure), and if you don't have a
hot spare, you'll have to use the BIOS tools to instigate a rebuild.
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