> cheap scsi raid? Âgood luck. Â maybe something on ebay, but then its
> Caveat Emptor, and likely the raid batteries will be dead or dying.
>
> What speed is your scsi backplane? Âyou can't get Ultra/320 speeds
> across older backplanes that were designed for U80 or U160 speeds. Âin
> fact, I've had a few backplanes that were supposed to be U320 but only
> worked reliably at U160 speeds, would get SCSI protocol errors when
> pushed under high IO loads at U320. Â Â 64bit 33Mhz PCI will sustain
> about 200MB/sec, which is about all you can get out of a single channel
> of U160 or slower SCSI anyways.
In that case there's no real point upgrading. :-) The drives are U160's.
I was just hoping a slightly newer card might be available that'd give
me a speed boost for cheap. :-)
--
Drew
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie
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