From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 13 22:10:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from portal.gmu.edu (portalknot.gmu.edu [129.174.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA62737B405 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmu.edu (mail01.gmu.edu [129.174.0.6]) by portal.gmu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10061 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:10:23 -0500 (EST) From: To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:10:23 -0500 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's on the technical spec sheet and implied by the ATA standard. Each ATA channel can have one master and one slave drive attached. Since the 6410 is a 4-channel controller it can handle 8 drives, 4*(master+slave). Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Tancsa Date: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:02 am Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller > At 12:54 AM 2/14/2002 -0500, sbernard@gmu.edu wrote: > >Here's what I've been able to find: > >http://www.hypermicro.com/store/index.htm. Their price for a 6410 > with>cables, etc. is $119 US. For those who aren't familiar, this > is a 4- > >channel ATA-66 RAID controller. It supports up to 8 drives with > slaves. > Where exactly did you hear that it supports 8 drives ? > > ---Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net > Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message