From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 24 10:24:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DC537BA98 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23457; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007241733.KAA23457@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel i815 w/ ICH using ata driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:53:16 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:33:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > BTW Mike, your work on the Adaptec RAID stuff looks impressive. I can't > believe Adaptec finally caved and released specs on their raid > controllers, it's great! Thank Justin; it was his work that achieved this. > Is there any chance that those zero channel > raid add-ons like the ARO-1130 from Adaptec or Express 000 from AMI will > ever be supported? I don't know how those things are implemented, but > if they were supported I could add RAID to about half of my motherboards > cheaply. =P The ARO-1130 is just a checksum accelerator; forget it. The Express 000 and the Mylex AcceleRAID 200 _should_ both "just work". They have issues with the Windows NCR driver, but the sym driver is known to be friendly and should "play nice". -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message