Dear Mike Myers, In message <430424.80078.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > Well, I can get the 16 port adaptecs for the same price ($100) from a local shop disposing of servers from failed companies. So the price isn't an issue. It's density. I'd like to be able to hang 24+ drives off one system, so I can't get there by usin > g 4 port PCI-E cards. Not enough slots, and the 4 port cards cost almost as much as the 16 port port adaptecs I can get. Are the adaptec drivers completely open source by now? Last time I had such a beast theey depended on a binary-ony module which would make each and every kernel update a major PITA. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx "I'm not a god, I was misquoted." - Lister, Red Dwarf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
