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: | Nikolas Britton (niko...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Aug 23, 2006 3:46:39 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-amd64 | |
On 8/23/06, Willem Jan Withagen <wj...@withagen.nl> wrote:
Hi,
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.
Disable int 13. The card is probably trying to load it's boot BIOS and another card is interfering with it... I had a Promise card that loved to f**k with my HighPoint controller. The solution to the problem was disabling int 13 on the HighPoint card by re-flashing the cards BIOS with a special switch set, I didn't need to boot from this card anyways.
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?
Stay away from Adaptec and Promise because they don't support FreeBSD. I would recommend Areca and/or HighPoint because they do officially support FreeBSD. 3Ware does support FreeBSD but I don't have experience with their cards so I can't say anything good or bad about them.
If you want to go 64-bit Areca drivers are open source and the FreeBSD man page states that they work on amd64.
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