Subject: Re: QikDrive with NetBSD?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Michael Wanka <Tom@Wanka.at>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/26/2001 21:41:12
Hi,

On 26 Dec 2001 at 15:00, Alex wrote:
> Is anyone using a Platypus Technologies  QikDrive 'solid state disk
> drive' with NetBSD?  
> 
> From what I can tell, it's a PCI card with a bunch of DIMM slots
> that masquerades as a hard disk.  The obvious thing would be for
> it to just present itself to the BIOS as an IDE controller with a
> small HD attached, but it's not clear to me from their web site that
> that's what they do, and I'm told it comes with "drivers" for Linux
> and assorted flavors of Windows, which set off some alarm bells.  So
> thought It would be wise to check and see if anyone has any actual
> experience with one.  They're at http://www.platypus.net

looks like they use a SCSI or IDE chip/emulator on that card. 
Depending on the price of their product and a different 
performance/flexibility ratio you might want to consider 
"http://www.mncurtis.com/Curtis/CurtisProducts/ClipperTwo.htm".

HTH

mike