RAID? I dunno if there is a controller for Amigas.
Well, it depends if you want hardware RAID or software RAID.
If you find a "fully" hardware RAID controller (usually ludicrously expensive, but I was trying to help someone who fell into owning one a while back) -- usually sold as part of a 'RAID enclosure,' I'm talking a piece of hardware that takes a chain of SCSI disks on one side, and presents a 'virtual' SCSI disk on the other, transparent to any platform that might be plugged into it, controlled/set up over a RS-232 link or similar -- then it should work as well as any large disk does. However, that sort of thing is getting rare (no, not every 'RAID enclosure' includes a truly standalone controller like that), and as far as price is concerned, you're probably better off using a software (or cheaper-hardware) setup on a 'popular platform,' and exporting the filesystem over the network to the Amiga or whatever else somehow. (Hrrm, how do I put this... that sort of design *is* putting a small embedded machine between you and the disks, but you probably won't be able to build the SCSI-to-SCSI, high-performance/high-transparency equivalent yourself with a Linux or *BSD box and two SCSI controllers... unless you write all the software needed to make the second interface 'spoof' being a SCSI target yourself. I think.)
Midgrade solutions (Hardware-accellerated RAID-on-PCI-card) will require specific drivers that no "Amiga"-related platform has yet.
The low-end IDE "hardware" solutions (like the HPT370 you started to get free on your x86 motherboards a few years ago) are basically software solutions anyway, so there's not really a reason to freak out and crave support for them. (Call those regular IDE controllers that, on x86, load a fancy BIOS and some compatible Windows soft-RAID drivers... or at least, I think that's what's going on there. Just like you don't
really need a wheel on your mouse to 'autoscroll.')
When it comes to that level of thing, someone's crafted a
Universal Raid Device for AmigaOS that provides roughly the same functionality as the BIOS/driver bundles that come with the cheap PC-land controllers, and, assuming it's stable, should be plenty good for most users' purposes. (Unless that was an April Fool, anyway... If it was, I've fallen for it!)
