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Re: Mylex (formerly BusLogic) DAC960SU external SCSI-to-SCSI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Wed Dec 17 14:48:52 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:22:23 -0800
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: flood@evcom.net
CC: jeff@planetfall.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971217103953.5943C-100000@zothommog.evcom.net>
(message from Floody on Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:44:18 -0500 (EST))
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:44:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Floody <flood@evcom.net>
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).
Mylex acquired BusLogic in February 1996. The FlashPoint and MultiMaster SCSI
host adapters came from BusLogic. The internal and external RAID controllers
came from Mylex.
Leonard
