From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 23 11:45:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06386 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06381 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14299; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:45:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:45:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707231845.MAA14299@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, sos@sos.freebsd.dk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building RAID systems In-Reply-To: <199707231725.MAA06775@compound.east.sun.com> References: <7669.869677218@time.cdrom.com> <199707231707.CAA10431@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199707231725.MAA06775@compound.east.sun.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Passing fair IDE controllers are mandatory (you pay for them whether > you want them or not). A decent SCSI controller is another $200, > discretionary. Naw, get a NCR card for < $100. Compare an NCR 810 to an IDE controller, and they're pretty close. Nate