Subject: Re: hardware RAID
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Adam Glass <adam@clarity.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/26/2002 11:41:10
Jason wrote:
> The Promise and Highpoint "RAID" controllers are nothing more than
> plain old IDE controllers.

Wow, lame.  What enables IDE hot-swap functionality?  The hot-swap
enclosures themselves, or are there any electrical signalling
differences on IDE RAID controllers to support hot-swap?

> The 3ware cards are ok, but Adaptec makes a pretty good IDE RAID
> controller, as well.

Is a driver for the Adaptec cards (1200A/2400A) supported in 1.5.x?  I
didn't see it mentioned on http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/pci.html,
but I don't know which chipset is on the Adaptec cards, just the card
model numbers.

A