> cheap scsi raid? good luck. maybe something on ebay, but then its > Caveat Emptor, and likely the raid batteries will be dead or dying. > > What speed is your scsi backplane? you can't get Ultra/320 speeds > across older backplanes that were designed for U80 or U160 speeds. in > fact, I've had a few backplanes that were supposed to be U320 but only > worked reliably at U160 speeds, would get SCSI protocol errors when > pushed under high IO loads at U320. 64bit 33Mhz PCI will sustain > about 200MB/sec, which is about all you can get out of a single channel > of U160 or slower SCSI anyways. In that case there's no real point upgrading. :-) The drives are U160's. I was just hoping a slightly newer card might be available that'd give me a speed boost for cheap. :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie