From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 16:50:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bigbird.netspaces.net (bigbird.netspaces.net [209.139.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11C414EA8 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:50:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@netspaces.net) Received: from elmo (elmo.netspaces.net [209.139.156.5]) by bigbird.netspaces.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA65848; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:50:09 GMT (envelope-from tim@netspaces.net) Message-Id: <199911170050.AAA65848@bigbird.netspaces.net> X-Sender: tim@bigbird.netspaces.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:49:15 -0500 To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) From: Tim Gustafson Subject: Re: question about Adaptec AAA-131U RAID Controller Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3831f7e9.730239288@mail.sentex.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>Does anyone know how to get this to work using the Adaptec card? Or >>perhaps any other Adaptec (or other) RAID controllers that work besides the >>DPT one? > >I beleive you can use the Adaptec card as a regular SCSI controller, but >not as a RAID controller. As for hardware RAID controllers, DPT is an >option, but you might want to wait a bit and use either the Mylex or >AMIMegaRAID controllers. I have been using both in testing machines, and so >far they perform quite well. But the drivers are still experimental. >However, they should be release quality by the time 3.4 gets released from >what I am told. Is the DPT card no good? I guess that's my main concern. I never heard of DPT until I checked the hardware list. Out of curiosity, do you know why FreeBSD is not choosing to support the Adaptec card? I consider Adaptec to be somewhat of a defacto standard when it comes to SCSI/RAID controllers, and I can't imagine why it wasn't one the first ones supported. Tim -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tim Gustafson - tim@netspaces.net - www.netspaces.net (516)369-7177 Phone Fax (516)369-6692 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Share your knowledge - it's a way to achieve immortality. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message