Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:29:49 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID spanning over two 2400A's supported? Message-ID: <20020421122949.GB18597@myhakas.estpak.ee> In-Reply-To: <20020420194723.A8156@freebsd.org> References: <20020417075728.GA94009@myhakas.estpak.ee> <20020417091401.GC24693@arrakis.tamu.edu> <20020418181822.A32943@oolong.il.thewrittenword.com> <20020420194723.A8156@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:47:23PM -0400, Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > Interestingly enoguh, the 2400A RAID uses the asr driver and reports > itself as Adaptec SCSI RAID. This card works much differently than, say, > the HighPoint and Promise ATA RAID cards you can get. It has a i960 > controller on the card and basically reports itself as a SCSI controller to > the OS. They are nice cards, I set up a FreeBSD box with one of these and > four 80GB IBM GXP drives not tool ong ago. As I understand it, it's basically SCSI RAID controller with some special firmware which will translate subset of ATA commands to SCSI and vice versa. Something similar to ATAPI <-> CAM layer translation in FreeBSD we're all missing 8-) -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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