Re: DEC equivalent of Mylex DAC960?

From: Benjamin Gawert (bgawert_at_gmx.de)
Date: 01/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:52:39 +0100

Mike Dorn wrote:

> I think these were commonly referred to as a "Raid Array 200" devices,
> also went by name of SWXCR. IIRC, DEC part number was KZP<S|A><A|C>,
> where one digit indicated 10mhz vs 20mhz, and the other indicated one
> or 3 scsi channels.

Thank You very much. So I have an KZPAC...

> I used a number of
> these on Alphas running unix at my last job. While they took awhile
> to
> configure, they were pretty solid performers, and never gave any of
> the
> goofy "lost configuration--kiss your data goodbye" problems that my
> coworkers had to put up with from the HP raid controllers on their NT
> boxes. Failed drive replacement could be done hot, without
> interrupting
> production.

Sounds promising...

> They do require separate firmware, but it stays on the
> card. They also need a stand-alone configuration utility, which runs
> under ARC. (You have to shut Unix down & boot ARC to run the utility
> from floppy, and it takes a LONG time to initialize a new
> mirror/raidset.)

Do You know where to find the latest firmware and the config utility for the
KZPAC? I looked around at the HP Website for Alha systems but couldn't find
it...

Benjamin