[rescue] Apple RAID

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, August 12, 2002 at 18:04:36 (-0700), vraptor at employees.org wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Apple RAID
>
> Do you know of any manuf. of IDE RAID PCI cards for Macs?  I haven't
> seen anything but SCSI RAID PCI cards for Macs.

Perhaps your question would better be phrased:

	Do you know of any PCI-to-{EIDE,ATA/100} hardware RAID
	controller cards with drivers for MacOS {9,X,etc.}?

:-)

(unless you want to boot from it, in which case you might also need
some form of support in the OpenFirmware for your model of Mac)

As far as I know Macs with PCI slots conform to the PCI standards and
any PCI card will "work" (from a hardware P.O.V.).  It's just a matter
of drivers for the OS you're using.  If you were to boot NetBSD/macppc
then any NetBSD-supported PCI card should work (assuming the interrupt
routing through the PCI bridges gets properly configured somehow).

(BTW, one of the major Apple add-on parts suppliers announced an little
low-end shoe-box-sized SCSI-to-EIDE RAID box for low-end $$$ back about
a year ago (when MacOS X was first announced IIRC).  Jobs was waving it
around on the stage at MacExpo saying how great it was.)

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