From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 14 12:14:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from lepton.nuc.net (lepton.nuc.net [204.49.61.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50DE15228 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wheelman@nuc.net) Received: from electron (dhcp9.ecofl.com [204.49.61.40]) by lepton.nuc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA05124; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:12:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wheelman@nuc.net) From: "Jaime Bozza" To: "Joe Greco" , Cc: , Subject: RE: Hardware RAID for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:11:32 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199906141846.NAA43719@aurora.sol.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >SCSI-to-SCSI RAID controllers are nicer and the Mylex can be configured >from the front panel (as opposed to something like the DPT SmartRAID IV >which requires a DOS app). > >They appear to the OS as an actual storage device, rather than as a >number of discrete drives. This means that you can install OS and stuff >on them too, because the PC BIOS sees them as a single drive too. I'm not sure about the speed of the SmartRAID V stuff (U2W suite), but the configuration is all done through the BIOS now. No DOS App is needed to configure. It may be worth a second look. Jaime Bozza EnterComp of Florida, LLP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message