57 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-amd64suggestions for SATA RAID cards| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Willem Jan Withagen | Aug 23, 2006 8:01 am | |
| Steven Hartland | Aug 23, 2006 8:23 am | |
| Willem Jan Withagen | Aug 23, 2006 10:01 am | |
| Steven Hartland | Aug 23, 2006 10:55 am | |
| Bob Willcox | Aug 23, 2006 12:02 pm | |
| Greg Martin | Aug 23, 2006 3:05 pm | |
| Willem Jan Withagen | Aug 23, 2006 3:14 pm | |
| Freddie Cash | Aug 23, 2006 3:26 pm | |
| Greg Martin | Aug 23, 2006 3:45 pm | |
| Nikolas Britton | Aug 23, 2006 3:46 pm | |
| Willem Jan Withagen | Aug 23, 2006 3:52 pm | |
| Nikolas Britton | Aug 23, 2006 4:13 pm | |
| Nikolas Britton | Aug 23, 2006 4:35 pm | |
| Dan Langille | Aug 23, 2006 8:07 pm | |
| Francisco Reyes | Aug 24, 2006 12:36 am | |
| Andreas Klemm | Aug 24, 2006 5:39 am | |
| Nikolas Britton | Aug 24, 2006 6:39 am | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Aug 24, 2006 7:56 am | |
| Nikolas Britton | Aug 24, 2006 4:22 pm | |
| Scott | Aug 24, 2006 4:41 pm | |
| Darren Pilgrim | Aug 24, 2006 5:06 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Aug 24, 2006 6:19 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Aug 24, 2006 6:26 pm | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Aug 25, 2006 12:03 am | |
| Mark Kirkwood | Aug 25, 2006 1:48 am | |
| Dan Langille | Aug 26, 2006 4:22 pm | |
| Francisco Reyes | Aug 27, 2006 3:08 am | |
| Dan Langille | Aug 27, 2006 2:19 pm | |
| Francisco Reyes | Aug 27, 2006 4:36 pm | |
| Dan Langille | Aug 27, 2006 8:57 pm | |
| Francisco Reyes | Aug 28, 2006 2:21 pm | |
| Dan Langille | Aug 28, 2006 10:18 pm | |
| Barkley Vowk | Aug 29, 2006 8:10 pm | |
| Albert Chin | Aug 31, 2006 7:23 pm | |
| Jo Rhett | Sep 7, 2006 6:47 pm | |
| Fabian Wenk | Sep 7, 2006 9:07 pm | |
| Steven Hartland | Sep 7, 2006 9:24 pm | |
| Jo Rhett | Sep 7, 2006 10:06 pm | |
| Steven Hartland | Sep 8, 2006 9:14 am | |
| Gibson, Jasen (GE Indust, ConsInd, consultant) | Sep 8, 2006 12:22 pm | |
| Jo Rhett | Sep 8, 2006 4:16 pm | |
| Mark Kirkwood | Sep 9, 2006 1:00 am | |
| Steven Hartland | Sep 9, 2006 6:34 am | |
| Steven Hartland | Sep 9, 2006 6:52 am | |
| Mark Kirkwood | Sep 9, 2006 8:38 am | |
| Mark Kirkwood | Sep 9, 2006 4:32 pm | |
| Chris Hedley | Oct 2, 2006 10:02 am | |
| Gibson, Jasen (GE Indust, ConsInd, consultant) | Oct 4, 2006 6:12 am | |
| Steven Hartland | Oct 4, 2006 6:58 am | |
| Chris Hedley | Oct 4, 2006 7:37 am | |
| Pete French | Oct 4, 2006 7:49 am | |
| Gibson, Jasen (GE Indust, ConsInd, consultant) | Oct 4, 2006 7:53 am | |
| Matthew D. Fuller | Oct 4, 2006 7:59 am | |
| Pete French | Oct 4, 2006 8:11 am | |
| Matthew D. Fuller | Oct 4, 2006 8:21 am | |
| Pete French | Oct 4, 2006 9:36 am | |
| Chris BeHanna | Oct 4, 2006 10:00 am |
| Subject: | suggestions for SATA RAID cards | |
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| From: | Freddie Cash (fca...@ocis.net) | |
| Date: | Aug 23, 2006 3:26:27 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-amd64 | |
On Wed, August 23, 2006 1:02 am, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server. Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at the CeBIT I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8. With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual core opteron.
In itself is this a combo that I thing would do for a long time at my home. ;)
However the 3ware controler decided not to play nice with 2 of the PCI-X boards I have here. It gets stuck in the bios disc scan. I've RMA-ed the card, but my guess is that it'll take a too long a time to fix/replace it for my patience.
Odd. We've had nothing but success with 3Ware Escalade controllers. 7000-series on 32-bit FreeBSD 6.0 with PATA drivers, 9000-series on 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.1 and Debian testing, 9550-series on 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.1 and Debian testing. Plugged directly into a 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X slot, or plugged into a 64-bit/100 MHz riser card, on Tyan Thunder K8S, K8SD, and K8SD-Pro motherboards.
Haven't tried with any other motherboards, though.
I've heard good things about Areca's line of SATA RAID controllers. Supposedly, they're the fastest things around, with good Linux and FreeBSD support. Haven't tried them, personally, though.
So I'm looking for alternatives with good support under amd64. I've seen that the Adaptecs are supported under aac(4). But what about Promisse or Highpoint RAID controllers?
Avoid Promise and Highpoint, as it's very easy to get a hybrid, non-hardware RAID controller from them, when you think you're getting a true hardware controller, and support is spotty for most of their cards.
---- Freddie Cash fca...@ocis.net