[rescue] Friend needs storage solution

[Peter Corlett]

Dimitar Vasilev <dimitar.vassilev at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Should have ebayed for an old 3ware controller 7xxx series. Promise
> stinks.

I've got a couple of Adaptec 2400A (hardware RAID with up to four ATA100
drives) controllers that are surplus to requirements (one's idle, the other
I'll decommission if the price is right):

0000:00:11.0 I2O: Adaptec (formerly DPT) SmartRAID V Controller (rev 02)

Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
PCI: Obtained IRQ 12 for device 0000:00:11.0
Adaptec I2O RAID controller 0 at c4800000 size=100000 irq=12
dpti: If you have a lot of devices this could take a few minutes.
dpti0: Reading the hardware resource table.
TID 008  Vendor: HIGHPOINT    Device: IDEhpt370    Rev: 00000001
TID 009  Vendor: HIGHPOINT    Device: IDEhpt370    Rev: 00000001
TID 010  Vendor: HIGHPOINT    Device: IDEhpt370    Rev: 00000001
TID 011  Vendor: HIGHPOINT    Device: IDEhpt370    Rev: 00000001
TID 517  Vendor: ADAPTEC      Device: RAID-1       Rev: 3A0L
scsi0 : Vendor: Adaptec  Model: 2400A            FW:3A0L
  Vendor: ADAPTEC   Model: RAID-1            Rev: 3A0L
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 625141760 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 625141760 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

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