IDE RAID (was SCSI 'n other stuff)

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Ben Scott wrote:

>   Hmmmm.  The "MegaRAID" *I* am familar with was a brand name at one
>time owned by AMI (the BIOS people), who later sold it to LSI.  All
>the MegaRAID cards I've used had an onboard processor (i960, I think)
>with a built-in "XOR engine", and dedicated cache RAM.  They didn't
>touch the host's CPU for the RAID calculations at all.  And they
>certainly weren't inexpensive.  Hundreds of dollars for even the
>single SCSI channel cards, and over a thousand for the 4-channel
>"Enterprise" product.
>  
>
D'oh!  Humble apologies -- there was a company, RAIDCore -- sorry! -- 
which was in Nashua, and bought by LSI.  When I saw the MegaRAID site go 
to LSI, I added two + two and got, as usual, 3.987.  I must be using a 
first-generation Pentium, 60 MHz.

-Ken