From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 21 9:47:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from bomber.avantgo.com (ws1.avantgo.com [207.214.200.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2786715164 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@avantgo.com) Received: from river ([10.0.128.30]) by bomber.avantgo.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with SMTP id 364 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:42:35 -0700 Message-ID: <13e201bf0450$e5530020$1e80000a@avantgo.com> From: "Scott Hess" To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990921164702.02d65a80@go2france.com> <99651.937928149@verdi.nethelp.no> Subject: Re: Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:46:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Meaning, of course, you need the vendor to let the specs out of their grubby little hands. Which in turn means that the vendor cannot make random changes to the card without making sure you're aware of them. Also, I'm not aware of any PCI-SCSI RAID systems for which you can access the administrative tools from a free OS. For some such systems, the system can automatically utilize the hot spare - but if you then swap out the bad drive, it won't automatically make the replacement the hot spare without rebooting to Windows and running the funky little admin tool to tell it what to do. It would be interesting if someone would take a middle road between SCSI-SCSI and PCI-SCSI controllers: a PCI-SCSI controller with a serial port console. That would make it very easy for any OS with a driver to handle administration. Later, scott ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 8:35 AM > > http://www.asus.com/products/addon/scsi/Da2200/perform.html > > > > Anybody thinking about supporting this RAID controller? > > > > ASUS quality and price. > > > > Len < wondering why so much talented effort goes into software RAID when > > the multiple vendor's silicon RAID is proven and cheap > > > If you can find a SCSI-SCSI hardware RAID controller which is proven > and cheap, I believe you'll have a lot of takers. > > If you offer a PCI based hardware RAID controller which is proven and > cheap, you also need to find somebody to write a reliable driver... > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message