From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 15:10:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8D116A4DF for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:10:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from screwdriver@lxnt.info) Received: from mx1.caravan.ru (mx1.caravan.ru [217.23.130.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A948313C4B3 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:10:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from screwdriver@lxnt.info) Received: from [217.23.131.8] (helo=[10.102.0.65]) by mx1.caravan.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HFXOT-000NTw-W7 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:10:34 +0300 Message-ID: <45CC8F3C.2070808@lxnt.info> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:11:56 +0300 From: Alexander Sabourenkov User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu> <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> <20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan> <004401c74c31$f8159160$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45CC72D4.9040104@lxnt.info> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:10:40 -0000 Jaime Bozza wrote: >> Hardware RAID1 buys you nothing in perfomance and reliability >> for a prolonged headache with drivers, bios insanity and >> monitoring+control tools. > > > Intel does seem to have a few hardware-based RAID controllers here: > http://www.intel.com/products/server/raid/ > > I don't see any driver or support for them in FreeBSD though. > Those are rebranded LSI Megaraid units, amr(4). They have mostly-unusable GUI bios (you actually have to have a mouse plugged in to do anything with it), no up-to-date FreeBSD control utility, though some reverse-engineering work resulted in a simple monitoring utility. They work ok (SCSI ones at least), but configuration and maintenance leave much to be desired. -- ./lxnt