AHA 3985 SCSI RAID adapter, NIB

[Chuck Guzis]

On 11/12/2005 at 10:46 PM John Boffemmyer IV wrote:

>Details from adaptec.com 
>This item is most definitely for Novell NetWare only (from the 
>details). I guess this item is useful and of value if you use a 
>NetWare server...

Well, you do get some DOS RAID support:

"...The AHA-398x is intended primarily to support disk arrays on systems
operating under NetWare 3.11, 3.12, or 4.xx. However, it also
supports SCSI hard drives and CD-ROM drives operating under
MS-DOS 5.0 or above. Limited disk array functionality is supported
under DOS, including RAID 5 operation with a failed drive.1 The
DOS support also allows you to install NetWare from a CD-ROM
drive attached to the AHA-398x. (The DOS-based NetWare installation
program is usually distributed on CD-ROM.)
The AHA-398x package includes NetWare software drivers. It also
includes drivers needed to operate CD-ROM drives under NetWare
and DOS. The drivers are on a disk labeled AHA-3980/3985 Drivers
and RAID Utilities."

I suspect that Windoze NT and Linux will simply see this adapter as 3
2940-type SCSI adapters and use the OS native RAID support.  In fact, the
ASPI driver for the AHA-2940 works just fine with this board.

Cheers,
Chuck