From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 28 17:28:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA18046 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17981; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tsunami..awod.com (chsm003.awod.com [206.31.146.203]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA26682; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:28:17 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960829002801.00913104@awod.com> X-Sender: klam@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:28:01 -0400 To: Brian Tao , FREEBSD-HACKERS-L , FREEBSD-SCSI-L From: Ken Lam Subject: Re: Streamlogic RAIDION drive arrays Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 03:39 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote: > Has anyone tried Streamlogic's RAIDION drive arrays? Apparently >they can do RAID 1 and 5 in hardware... all your host sees is one very >large, very fast disk. I'm thinking of tossing one of those with a >dozen 2GB drives or so in for a news server. I may not need special >drivers, but I can see some hurdles with disktab-related stuff. >Maybe I can get an eval unit from them to play with. :) Yes. I have installed one for a non-linear video editor. It was a 12GB array. Worked great. Of course it was used on a Macintosh. It wasn't streamlogic, but micropolis then. The only thing I didn't really like was that I couldn't purchase is with other brand drives (I prefer Seagate Hawks). I didn't get a chance to test it under FreeBSD. Fairly fast, but other than the RAID 5 aspect, why not use CCD? News spool is hardly a get killed by users application (unless you have lots of disgruntled postal workers online ;) ) --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"