yes it would. i'm not too worried about that yet. i have worked with the dac960 before under linux. we built a 2TB oracle database using the dac960; the performance on a 4-way 600Mhz pIII xeon was exceptional, handily beating 8-way ibm r50s running oracle on SSAs (serial arrays).
as i understand it, the card is buit around an intel i960 chip that does the arithmatic for raid5. the good news is that there's a linux driver. the bad news is similar: ; wc -l /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1/drivers/block/DAC* 7222 /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1/drivers/block/DAC960.c 4429 /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1/drivers/block/DAC960.h 11651 total On Sat Mar 4 20:12:47 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The *nomp=1 will explain why only one processor is being seen. > > I'm not familiar with the dac960, so I suspect that we don't have a > driver for it. google shows that freebsd and linux drivers exist, so > that might be a place to start. > > In general, I believe we don't have drivers for RAID cards. They > often turn out to not actually do RAID in hardware (Promise is famous > for this). I think 3ware is an exception and their cards actually do > RAID in hardware. >
