Re: RAID controlers drivers

[chuck <chuck@Yerkes.com>]

Quoting Nicholas Merrill (lists@mojo.calyx.net):
> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, hugo wrote:
> 
> > Are there drivers for the adaptech AHA-2940-UW Host adaptor that will be
> > used with the AEC-4412 BS8 controller?
> > 
> > If not can someone point me towards RAID controllers that will work.
> 
> 
> As far as I know the only RAID controllers you can use with OpenBSD are
> the stand-alone kind that mimic a SCSI device, and must be hooked to
> a normal controller like an Adaptec 2940 or a BusLogic 958
> 
> An example would be the Mylex DAC-960 (www.mylex.com)

I've used a (borrowed) Boxhill RAID on the system just fine.
But it is a scsi device (it mimics being a big ass disk).  The
key advantage of that is that if your computer blows up, you can
just move the RAID device to another machine and don't have to
worry about moving configurations.

Now, wouldn't it be just neato to have a SCSI-3 device that could
talk to 5 or so EIDE devices on the back end.  For $400.

c