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
