IDE RAID (was SCSI 'n other stuff)

[Tom Buskey]

On 11/30/05, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>
> 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



RAIDcore was (& is still) in Nashua.  They were bought by Broadcom.  SATA
RAID, 4 or 8 ports, hot swap, change from RAID 0,1,0+1,5,10,50 to one of the
others live.  Windows and Linux drivers (with source I think).  Very nice
card with great performance vs $$
   - former linux test guy at RAIDcore (me).


to LSI, I added two + two and got, as usual, 3.987.  I must be using a
> first-generation Pentium, 60 MHz.
>
> -Ken
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