Low Profile U320 RAID support

[up at 3.am]

I don't know much at all about zero channel RAID, but I assume it requires
a separate SCSI controller, which seems to me like it would make it
tougher to troubleshoot, and possibly affect performance/overhead.  As
David pointed out, I was mistaken that the Adaptec 2200S didn't have a
FBSD driver; the aac apparently works.

Thanks for all the reponses.

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Simon wrote:

>
> MegaRAID 320-1LP, I tested the none low-profile version, it is pretty
> good, even better than my older Mylex AccelerRAID 170 I will use
> these in our new servers. I already have one 2U with low-profile slots
> on order. Though, this server will support Adaptec zero-channel cards,
> which I will be giving a try. Any reason why you wish to avoid them?
>
> -Simon
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:36:07 -0500 (EST), up at 3.am wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi:
> >
> >I need to build a newer, faster FBSD server to replace one running RAID 1
> >with an Adaptec 2100s and have the following requirements for the RAID
> >card:
> >
> >1 channel (2 preferable)
> >U320 SCSI
> >low profile (going into a 2RU box, want to avoid a riser)
> >supported by FreeBSD 4.9
> >
> >I'm not particularly interested in SATA or zero channel solutions unless I
> >have no other options (experiences with 0 channel RAID welcome), but I
> >can't seem to find anything that meets all of these requirements.
> >
> >The Adaptec 2200S would be ideal, but alas, there's no FreeBSD driver for
> >it.
> >
> >Please respond directly, as I am not subscribed to either list.
> >
> >TIA,
> >
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