-> Craig Healy wrote in a message to All:
->
-> CH> I just picked up an Adaptec AHA-3985W SCSI RAID card.  One
-> CH> of those "too cheap to pass up" deals at the Boston Computer
-> CH> Show yesterday.
->
-> I wish I'd known.  How cheap was cheap?
$199.  The box was a bit "shopworn", but the card and disks seemed to
have the factory shrinkwrap on them.  The only catalog price I saw
was about $800 for the thing...
-> CH> It is designed to work primarily with Novell 3.11, 3.12 or
-> CH> 4.xx server software.  Does anyone know if it can be used
-> CH> with anything else like WinNT or Linux?
->
-> I don't know about NT support off the top of my head, but I happen to
-> participant in the Linux driver development effort for Adaptec cards.
-> high-end Adaptec chipsets use generic sequencers which are really spe
-> microcontrollers, and these have to be programmed by the driver at
-> boot time by uploading microcode.

-> What is the chipset on the AHA-3985?  There may be either full or
-> partial support for it, but I don't know.  If there is partial
-> support, the driver may only support non-RAID mode.
Not sure what chipset is in it.  It's at work, and I'm at home.  Also
picked up the InfoMagic Linux 6-disk set, but no BSD there...
I would like to use it as the basis for a new lan for the BBS.  I really
don't care what the server software is, so even Novell as supported
would be OK.  I do have 3.12, and it is supported by the card.
Also discovered that all nodes access the Wildcat Novell server
by use of the Lantastic software.  Any major downsides to that?
-c-
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