[5994] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: FC-AL support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steffen Grunewald)
Sat Feb 27 07:02:30 1999
From: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de>
To: exce7@ce.chalmers.se (Fredrik Lundholm)
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:00:59 +0100 (MET)
Cc: steffen@gfz-potsdam.de, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199902230857.JAA12282@blomman13.ce.chalmers.se> from "Fredrik Lundholm" at Feb 23, 99 09:57:03 am
Fredrik Lundholm:
>
>
> > BTW: someone knows how so-called host-independent RAID controllers
> > work ? (especially the ones Raidtec offers) Will it be possible to
> > bypass the controller and access a disk itself ?
>
> Well I thought most so called FC-AL raid controllers just were a bunch
> of disks.o
Wrong. Raidtec sells a controller that will convert a JBOD into a true
RAID array, doing volume management in hardware.
Unfortunately i've been wating a long time to get my hands on such a beast.
But there's still hope...
sg
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