> -----Original Message----- > From: Agus Budy Wuysang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:11 AM > To: Leonard N. Zubkoff > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Status on drivers for ExtremeRaid 2000? > > "Leonard N. Zubkoff" wrote: > > > > From: "List User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:03:01 -0500 > > > > I was wondering if anyone here knew the status on the > drivers for the > > Mylex ExtremeRaid 2000 card. Are they in beta yet? > > > > In the next 1-2 months I'm going to need a new raid card > and could really > > use the 2000 over the 1100. (need the additional scsi channel). > > > > Development of the driver support for the new controllers > is going well and I > > expect to have a public beta within a couple of weeks. My > to-do list is > > getting quite short now. I anticipate that the new driver > will be quite stable > > even in beta form, and I plan to run my own server on the > 2000's as soon as I > > can. > > Just curios, is the 2000 any faster than 1100 if I use > only U2LVD drives? > (knowing that they have the same StrongArm CPU @same freq) CPU isn't the only issue for performance. It could have a better SCSI chipset, better drivers, or more advanced firmware. Of course, I've never used either of them, so I don't know how fast they are. > Plus wouldn't the CPU be the bottleneck if say I have 2x 2ch 1100 > vs 1x 4ch 2000? That depends on what the card is doing, and the firmware/drivers etc. Assuming that they were equivalent on the drivers/firmware, then it would come down to how many drives and the type of array they are configured in. I don't know if you can create RAID arrays that span multiple adapters, so perhaps that's a reason to want the 4 channel card vs 2x2channel cards. Greg
