Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 07:55:15 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: swaits@pr.erau.edu, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inodes for news server Message-ID: <199512091255.HAA20951@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199512042048.NAA04302@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 4, 95 01:48:18 pm
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> 2) There is a Compaq SCSI comtroller that has transparent RAID. > There is a driver for FreeBSD, although it hasn't been > integrated. Look at the -hackers list archive, subject > "Re: RAID" for details on the Compaq controller. Software > RAID is pretty much unusable because of [lack of] speed, > although there was talk at one time of altering the AIC-7770 > based controller's sequencer code (since it is home brew > anyway) to support RAID at that level, which would make it > more realistic. There is an NCR RAID controller available that I tried on a different system three or four years ago. You could use it without any kernel work by hooking a serial terminal up to it for maintenance (rebuilding drives, setting RAID level etc) and having it come on line as a huge disk. Sorry I can't give the exact model or availability. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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