Subject: Re: differential scsi controllers
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/03/1998 09:47:42
Andrew Gillham wrote:
>
> Michael K. Sanders writes:
> > In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.980702153424.25182G-100000@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
> > , Chris Jones writes:
> > >
> > >Yeah, but with gadgets like Adaptec's AEC RAID controllers going for about
> > >$1700, it's getting better all the time. One of the people I work for is
> > >looking at putting together a 30GB RAID 0/1 for about $5500, which seems
> > >pretty reasonable to me.
> >
> > Or a DPT 3334UDW, which with 32GB worth of the differential drives I
> > just picked up (starting this whole thread :), would cost < $2k.
>
> But will NetBSD have drivers for a DPT 3334UDW? The AEC controllers are
> straight SCSI<->SCSI, as opposed to a PCI<->SCSI RAID controller.
> The DPT webpage mentions BSDI and Linux has having support, where's *BSD?
>
>
Yes. This is on my list for later this year at NASA/Ames, much delayed
already.