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From: brent@vivid.net (Brent "Weasel" Wiese)
Subject: Re: Any RAID Controller?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:47:00 GMT
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I use a DPT Smartcache RAID controller in a NT box and it rocks... but
the only unix drivers for it are SCO and BSDI. However, I've been
bugging DPT to make a driver and they have said "we're working on it.
its been outsourced." So, eveyone that reads this should email DPT and
tell them to get a move on so us FreeBSD users can enjoy their card...

Oh yeah, they are a lot cheaper than mylex. Also, my experience with
mylex (which is a from a few years ago under SCO unix) is that they
were "flimsy"... like we destroyed more than a few by reseating the
card... Of course, that may have changed since then...

Cheers,
Brent


On 11 Apr 1997 20:19:17 GMT, joonas@sci.fi (Joonas Malminen) wrote:

>Chu Chiu Leung (clc@b1.hkstar.com) wrote:
>: hi there,
>
>: is there any RAID controller being supported by FreeBSD?
>
>I am not sure about that, but if you can not find any, you can also check
>Mylex (www.mylex.com) web-page, they have some SCSI 2 SCSI RAID devices.
>As a owner of BusLogic 946C SCSI-controller, I can only recommend Mylexis
>products. Mylex was formerly known as BusLogic.
>
>--
>
>  Joonas Malminen	"May the Unix be with you."