On 23 Feb 2001, at 19:12, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:

> i know that SCSI is better but the problem is in overshooted
> prices... 2-3 times than similar IDE..
> 
> or maybe only in Poland? :(

Hi,

no here too. 

A solution was to get one of the newer IDE Raid controllers 
supported under NetBSD. They have 4 to 6 independent ATA/100 
channels (each channel supports only one drive), a CPU to calculate 
parity information and cache. They are i2o compatible. They should 
be as performant as SCSI solutions, but a single raid can only have 
6 drives where a 3 channel SCSI raid controller could have up to 42 
drives.

I have not gotten my hands on one of them, but if they come, they 
should make fine solutions.

mike