From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 13:49:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB6637BEE8 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:49:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA39514; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007262057.NAA39514@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: Petr Murmak , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise-66 RAID In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:28:43 EDT." <200007262028.QAA04658@misha.privatelabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:57:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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.) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message