From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 11 9:39:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1B2155D0 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA48167; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:39:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199908111639.KAA48167@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: Good non-RAID controller? In-Reply-To: <19990811120335.A8339@netmonger.net> from Christopher Masto at "Aug 11, 1999 12:03:35 pm" To: chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:39:16 -0600 (MDT) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christopher Masto wrote... > I see a lot of information on which RAID devices to get, but it's all > a bit more expensive than I'm looking for at the moment. I'm thinking > of doing mirroring with Vinum, but the last SCSI FreeBSD machine I was > involved with was several years ago. At the time, we put an Adaptec > 3940 dual-channel controller in it. I have a bit of an aversion to > using that card again, since it's been around since the stone age, and > I don't think its performance is particularly good. > > Does anyone have a better recommendation for a relatively inexpensive > SCSI card that works well with FreeBSD? Dual-channel would be nice, > but I suppose I could just get two cards if the price is right. I wouldn't call it inexpensive, but the Adaptec 3950U2B would be a good choice. It's a dual channel Ultra-2 controller. If you get the kit version, you get two Ultra-2 cables and a 50-pin cable. The Ultra-2 cables alone are probably worth the extra money for the kit. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message