*BSD News Article 98146


Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:45:46 -0600
From: chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone using Adaptek 3985 RAID controller ?
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In article <dkleinh.866781473@isotope.ps.uci.edu>,
dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu (Dirk Kleinhesselink) wrote:

> I see that FreeBSD (and Linux) support the Adaptec 3985 RAID controller.
> Is anyone using this with either of these OSes ?  How is it ?
> We currently have a commercial server which is very expensive and
> I'm considring alternatives.  I did fiddle with the concatinated disc
> support in FreeBSD and the multiple devices in Linux, but I would
> think a RAID specific controller would have faster I/O throughput.
> I appreciate any info.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dirk 

Hi

WHere did you see that FreeBSD supports this controller?  Last I saw it
was not listed as supporting it as a RAID controller.

thanks
Chad