From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 20:54:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2380D16A403 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:54:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amon@sockar.homeip.net) Received: from mallaury.nerim.net (smtp-101-monday.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2A443D72 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:54:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amon@sockar.homeip.net) Received: from sockar.homeip.net (tourist.net8.nerim.net [213.41.176.3]) by mallaury.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FAD84F3B0 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:54:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ra.aabs (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sockar.homeip.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k92Ks9nj054143 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:54:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from amon@ra.aabs) Received: (from amon@localhost) by ra.aabs (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k92Ks9ba054142 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:54:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from amon) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:54:09 +0200 From: Herve Boulouis To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061002205409.GI46550@ra.aabs> References: <4520E7EA.1060302@netfence.it> <20061002152510.GA46550@ra.aabs> <452154D6.4090305@netfence.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <452154D6.4090305@netfence.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Replacing a Mylex AcceleRAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:54:28 -0000 Le 02/10/2006 20:05, Andrea Venturoli a écrit: > Herve Boulouis wrote: > > >>_ any hint or recommendation for a replacement card which will possibly > >>stay on the market for a while and has an OS management interface? > > > >Adaptec and LSI both have management tools for freebsd. LSI cards seems to > >have the favors of many, > > Thanks I'll look into them. > What models of Adaptec exactly work well? (I know HostRAID doesn't). The aac driver based adaptec controllers embedded in dell poweredge systems and the 2200S standalone card work quite well (avoid 2120S, it has performance issues) HostRAID is software raid for the general public, it's completely inappropriate for servers. > Are the CLIs in the port tree? What's their name? the cli is named aaccli and is downloadable on adaptec's website. Although the controllers I've mentionned are known to work reliably (4 years of production here on nearly 50 servers), they are showing their age (dell now uses LSI chips, for instance) and recently adaptec has not been very cooperative with the free software community for the support of their cards. That's why I've moved to LSI MegaRAID (the fact that they are used in dell servers makes the chip and its drivers more exposed, so bugs are found and fixed quickier than with less popular controllers) of course, this is just my personal opinion :) -- Herve Boulouis