Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:23:42 -0700 From: Deomid Ryabkov <myself@rojer.pp.ru> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel SRCU42E Message-ID: <4526BB4E.1070505@rojer.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <45265712.7000309@netfence.it> References: <45265712.7000309@netfence.it>
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Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > Is the above controller supported? > man amr reports SRCU42X (same model but PCI-X instead of PCI-E) and > MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E (which should be the same as SRCU42E) working, so I > would suppose so, but I thought I'd better ask before buying. yes, they are both supported by amr(4), but of these two, i'd recommend to go with LSI's MegaRAID, rather than Intel's flavor. first, 320-2E has a better IOP than -2X (e.g., should be faster - but not that i have tested) second, intel, in their version of bios, has completely removed the text version of configurator (i.e. Ctrl-M), only leaving GUI. not only is it inconvenient to navigate without a mouse (tab, tab, tab...), but it is impossible to create an array - you are supposed to select disks by ctrl-clicking and tehre is no other way (at least i couldn't figure out). so you pretty much have to have a mouse to manage your arrays from bios, which sucks. in all other respects Intel SRC* and LSI's controllers are pretty much the same hardware. -- Deomid Ryabkov aka Rojer myself@rojer.pp.ru rojer@sysadmins.ru ICQ: 8025844
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