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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:57:22 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        mi@aldan.algebra.com
Cc:        Petr Murmak <murmak@artum.cz>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promise-66 RAID 
Message-ID:  <200007262057.NAA39514@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:28:43 EDT." <200007262028.QAA04658@misha.privatelabs.com> 

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> On 26 Jul, Mike Smith wrote:
> = The FastTrak  cards are not RAID  cards; they are dual-port  ATA cards
> = with  (lame) RAID  software  in the  BIOS on  the  card. They  require
> = Windows drivers  which take over  the RAID  work once you  have booted
> = Windows, or you can use them as plain dual-port ATA-66 cards.
> =
> = If you want a supported ATA RAID solution, see www.3ware.com.
> 
> We see  ccd driver  doing wonders with  several disks  connected through
> Promise ATA cards. Speed of 20-60Mb/s is achievable with CPU utilization
> much smaller then when using the 3Ware card.

I'd be very interested to see your tests and results on this.  
(Obviously, since you would have seen my name on the 3ware driver.)

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rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
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