Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:28:13 -0500 From: Andrew Otwell <andrew@networkcomputerz.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap AMI MegaRAID 428 boards Message-ID: <38BDD1BD.F7D816BC@networkcomputerz.com> References: <200003010350.TAA02184@mass.cdrom.com>
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Actually, the 428 has an alarm feature that'll buzzzzzzzz you to death
in the event of a disk failure.
Mike Smith wrote:
>
> >
> > > Note that it only does 20MHz ("ultra") 16-bit SCSI; if you're more
> > > interested in reliability than speed it should do you OK. Also note that
> > > as yet we don't have a management interface for this controller family,
> > > so you'll be flying a _little_ blind in eg. degraded/rebuild cases.
> >
> > What do you mean by blind? I won't know when I'm in a degraded state,
> > or I will have to use some DOS/Win tools to do the rebuild?
>
> You won't know if you're in a degraded mode (unless you look at what your
> drives are doing, or have a SAF-TE enclosure), and if you don't have a
> hot spare, you'll have to use the BIOS tools to instigate a rebuild.
>
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