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Re: Mylex (formerly BusLogic) DAC960SU external SCSI-to-SCSI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Floody)
Wed Dec 17 11:20:44 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:44:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Floody <flood@evcom.net>
To: Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971217084903.46834@xyzzy>
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 05:05:00PM -0500, Floody wrote:
> > I'm thinking of building an external SCSI-to-SCSI 5 drive RAID5 array
> > using the BusLogic DAC960SU in an external cabinet coupled to a BusLogic
> > BT-958 PCI host adapter. I am fairly sure the BT-958 is supported by
> > Linux. Does anyone other there have any information or experience
> > regarding the Mylex/BusLogic external array hardware?
>
> The DAC960 products are Mylex products. They were never BusLogic
> products. And they are not yet supported by Linux. Get DPT if you
> need RAID.
>
> Jeff
The DAC960 is an _external_ scsi-to-scsi controller. It does not need
reside in a host PC, and thus does not need to be supported by Linux, it
presents itself as a single device to the host system (which may be
running *any* supported controller), possibly with multiple LUNs
(depending on how the DAC960 is configured).
It appears as though Mylex has purchased BusLogic, although I'm not
completely sure. I wasn't sure which products were formerly Mylex's, and
which were BusLogic's.
For my purposes, external RAID is a necessity (physical requirement,
basically).
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