From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 29 19:50: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B876C37BD1F; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02184; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003010350.TAA02184@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Lengeling Cc: Mike Smith , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:23:28 CST." <38BC8D30.22971D80@raccoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:50:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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? 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. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message