[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Has anyone tried the new Adaptec 2100S, 3200S, or 3400S? With the current
> shortage of Mylex RAID cards, we need to find something else to use in
> situations where we would have used the Acceleraid or Extremeraid (where
> reasonable write performance is needed in a RAID5 config). They seem to
> range in price from $400 to $900...slightly cheaper than the Mylex
> products nobody has in stock anyway.
>
> Adaptec's site claims these 3 new cards are supported by Linux, FreeBSD,
> and a bunch of other OSs.
>
We had no particular trouble getting the 2100S running on our
load but, after a while, something (driver/kernel) breaks with
timeouts under heavy load on the system I was using. YMMV
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