From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Sep 7 15:42:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19237 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 15:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from io.org (io.org [198.133.36.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19229; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 15:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA03612; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 18:41:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 18:41:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Joe Greco cc: Ken Lam , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Streamlogic RAIDION drive arrays In-Reply-To: <199608291420.JAA06736@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > If it has write back cache, you have a reason to look at it :-) The fellow at Tenex didn't have the answer to most of my questions, but he took a list back to one of his engineers and he'll get back to me on Monday. ;-) > I've been considering trying something like a Mylex DAC960SI (?), > SCSI-to-SCSI RAID controller, simply for the cache you can stick on > it. The CMD Daytona RAIDarray looks like a winner in this arena. I'm interested in the version with their CRD-5300 integrated with a six-bay tower. It will take up to 64MB of battery-backed RAM, supports hot-swappable drives, supports command queueing and has redundant power supplies. You just have a single SCSI F/W cable plugged into the back. http://www.cmd.com/product/raid/daytona.htm After spending several hours early Saturday morning reconfiguring our NFS server because of a bad drive in a conventional external case with those annoying screw-on drive rails, I'm going to enjoy having a real cabinet to work with. :) -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"