From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 11:01:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B114E16A427 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:01:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from mail.dc-servers.com (mail3.dc-servers.com [83.243.101.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34CBE43D69 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:01:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: (qmail 20118 invoked by uid 399); 27 Feb 2006 11:01:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alfie.jigsawhq.com) (work@ashleymoran.me.uk@213.106.224.113) by mail.dc-servers.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2006 11:01:53 -0000 From: Ashley Moran Organization: Codeweavers Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:32:38 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602241216.00547.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602271032.38550.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Cc: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 vs Adeptec 2820 for RAID 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:01:59 -0000 On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:53, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > I would wonder about Adaptec support. Areca is officially supporting > FreeBSD (and Solaris 10 and others). The Adaptec website claims that the 2820 is compatible with FreeBSD 5.4 but doesn't mention 6. I noticed that about Areca >> I have a 12 port PCI-X version of the Areca but not yet installed. > My correspondence with Areca before I got it was very good. They > were quite responsive. > > I have been using a lot of adaptec boards over the last 5 years > (2100S x 2, 2200S, 2410SA x a few, 2400A in one machine). They work > fine but Adaptec provides no support for FreeBSD and the released > utilities may or may not work so well as FreeBSD matures but the > utilities stay at old versions... The Areca utilities seem quite up to date - Dec 05. Only i386 binaries but I assume they will control the card just find running on an amd64 machine. Will you let me know how you find them? It'd be reassuring to know the tools are good. Cheers Ashley