From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 7 13:46:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-77.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D672F37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA7Lp2F33126; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011072151.eA7Lp2F33126@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Conrado Vardanega" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise ATA RAID and IDE Tapes In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:06:02 -0300." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:51:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've seen some messages regarding ATA RAID and got curious about the Promise > ATA RAID solution (hardware): does it depends on any software compatibility > to work with FreeBSD or even with Linux? Promise's website is > www.promise.com. The Promise ATA RAID solution is software, and now supported (to some degree) in 4.2 > BTW, did someone installed successfully any IDE Tape Drives like Seagate's > Travan and Hornet drives? Yes. However these drives are actually a pretty bad deal; when a 5GB tape is ~$40 the drive suddenly looks a lot less economical. Try finding a secondhand DAT or Exabyte 8mm drive. -- ... 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] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message