On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:54:46PM -0500, Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > The Escalade 6xxx series support ATA/66. Well, maybe they have an ATA/100 version planned... > > They're really cool... They look cool... > > 2-8 channels, 1 device/channel (which is why ATA/66 is > plenty good). It's completely internal. Internal is good. I have a full tower, so I'll have the room. > > The 3ware driver makes any RAIDed drives look like a single > SCSI drive. > > Furthermore, the 3ware supports other cool things such as > command queueing, etc. Plus, they have an onboard co-processor. > (same one most SCSI RAID cards have). How about logical partitioning? Does the Escalade allow me to make, say, 4 drives into a single logical drive and then partition that logical drive into say, 3 logical partitions which all appear as seperate drives to my machine? The reason I ask is because I was thinking about the following setup: 4 30GB ATA/100 Deskstars 1 logical drive 2 logical partitions I suppose I could just take the 1 logical drive and partition it through the OS, but if the controller handles it for me, it's that much nicer. > > The FastTrack card is both poorly supported, plus it doesn't > have a co-processor. All it does for you is make your RAID > drives look like one drive. It's still all software otherwise. Ah, thanks for the heads-up. > > >From what I've heard, these cards are pretty amazingly fast. > IDE is faster than SCSI for one device, since the command > set is much smaller (and faster). Since there is only one device/channel > on this controller... well, it's pretty amazing. Plus, it has an > Alan Cox approved open source driver in 2.2.15+. > Eenteresteeng... I'll have to give it a try. Where do you suggest I get one of these controllers? It looks like one can only buy them through offical 3ware resellers. Gabe -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Dear Dr. Stupid: Why do I have to go to school?" -- Announcer "Your parents are aliens!! While you're at school, they shed their human skins and breathe dryer lint!!" - Dr. Stupid in "Ask Dr. Stupid" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org