On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:37:01PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Following up to myself again... > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > >Hello all, > > > >Supermicro 1U w/SCA backplane and 4 bays > >2x2.8 GHz Xeons > >Adaptec 2015S "zero channel" RAID card > > I don't want to throw away the four machines like that that we have. I do > want to throw away the ZCR cards... :) If I ditch those I still have a 1U > box with a U320 scsi plug on the back. > > I'm vaguely considering pairing these two devices: > > http://www.areca.us/products/html/products.htm > > That's an Areca 16 channel SATA II (I haven't even read up on what's new > in SATA II) RAID controller with an optional U320 SCSI daughter card to > connect to the host(s). > > http://www.chenbro.com.tw/Chenbro_Special/RM321.php Not sure how significant, but the RM321 backplane claims to support SATA 150 (aka SATA I) only. -Mike