From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 6 16:26:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA21740 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 16:26:39 -0800 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA21735 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 16:26:37 -0800 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA18254; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 17:07:39 -0800 Message-Id: <199511070107.RAA18254@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Joe Greco cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PCI RAID Controller... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 1995 13:09:17 CST." <199511061909.NAA17475@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 17:07:38 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Since there is an interest in performance solutions on this list, and >because somebody had mentioned the Compaq(??) EISA RAID controller a while >back, I was fascinated when I ran across the following: > >(from http://www.adaptec.com/sales/AHA3985Features.html) >(snip)---------------------------------------------------------------- >Adaptec AHAŽ-3985 PCI RAID Adapter I've known about this controller for some time. >Does anybody have any further information about this? (is anybody looking >to write a device driver for it???) Well, its only supported under Netware so far. Perhaps this is because of some hooks in Netware for RAID? Adaptec seems pretty tight lipped on technical information for this card. I talked with the product manager for the card today and we'll see what he can do as far as getting me programming information. If we can get enough info to support it, it should smoke. >All FreeBSD needs now is a PrestoServe type solution (the one advantage of >the Compaq controller) ... I can just see it now. Pentium, of Borg, >materializes, saying "Sun is Irrelevant", holding a FreeBSD 2.2 CDROM and >a FreebieServe Cache Accelerator card :-) :) >... Joe -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================