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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: mdivancic on August 01, 2008, 01:07:07 PM

Title: SoftRaid
Post by: mdivancic on August 01, 2008, 01:07:07 PM
Has anyone used the SoftRaid driver on Aminet? Is it any good? Are there any other RAID drivers (software or hardware) out there for the Amiga?
Title: Re: SoftRaid
Post by: darksun9210 on August 01, 2008, 02:12:00 PM
i did give it a go ages ago, but i got bored trying to configure the drive geometry. best thing is to get a scsi raid box that raids your drives automagically, and presents itself as a "normal" scsi disk device to whatever scsi controller you are using.
Title: Re: SoftRaid
Post by: alexh on August 01, 2008, 03:51:15 PM
The hardware 4-disk SATA RAID controller that I designed works well with the Deneb. (albeit the RAID support software needs porting to AmigaOS)

Oxford Semiconductor UFS936QS

It's coming out soon under several guises if you want me to point you towards one?
Title: Re: SoftRaid
Post by: mdivancic on August 02, 2008, 02:30:08 PM
Quote

alexh wrote:
The hardware 4-disk SATA RAID controller that I designed works well with the Deneb. (albeit the RAID support software needs porting to AmigaOS)

Oxford Semiconductor UFS936QS

It's coming out soon under several guises if you want me to point you towards one?


More detail please!
Title: Re: SoftRaid
Post by: alexh on August 02, 2008, 02:56:17 PM
It's a triple interface (USB2.0 HS, 1394b, eSATA) to four SATA disks.

RAID 0, 10, 3, 5

When I find out the names of the devices which use this chip I'll post back.