From owner-aic7xxx Sun Jan 10 19:10:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21478 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:10:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duh.f-stopcamera.com (duh.f-stopcamera.com [209.57.41.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21472 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:10:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from byron@mail.ifip.com) From: byron@mail.ifip.com Received: from a2-1f214.neo.rr.com (home.f-stopcamera.com [209.57.41.149] (may be forged)) by duh.f-stopcamera.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA24393 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:09:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199901110309.WAA24393@duh.f-stopcamera.com> To: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Adaptec 7890 and RAID portIII RAID controller Linux Support Date: Mon, 11 Jan 99 03:09:53 +0000 X-Mailer: Endymion MailMan v2.0 Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am intrested in buying a server and i have been looking at Raid. I have found a neet motherboard that has dual utra II scsi and a raid portIII the motherboard specs are at http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/440GX/S2DGU.htm My main question is does Linux suport the Raidport III raid cards. And if it does can you point me where to get more info on suporting it. I am also sligtly intrested in knowing how much preformance differance there would be between softtware raid and hardware raid. If any one has alot of experance in this area with linux and has some time to help me pleas e-mail me a byron@lek.net Thanks Byron Albert byron@lek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message