From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 09:40:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E5016A438 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:40:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1C943D53 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:40:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t15so803826wxc for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:40:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=chM/ZFZErP6BPTl5mrmzTz6WyUIQo0zdEcXlrYubXUY7w0Y8yUdtGG2ewdBAClShkVaXO90CjxhPB8FcdGQ8dt1UFZQoDDT3rvICosLbUkG5F0PDEjm4tIxxo9CPhBeJiSQKPoM/JxWl4uptoXdU2XlC727BlNUg1dR4R4FuiP4= Received: by 10.70.115.12 with SMTP id n12mr826838wxc; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:40:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.9 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:40:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:40:44 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Brian Szymanski" In-Reply-To: <1219.68.49.189.193.1141981287.squirrel@68.49.189.193> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1219.68.49.189.193.1141981287.squirrel@68.49.189.193> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: well-supported SATA RAID card? 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: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:40:51 -0000 On 3/10/06, Brian Szymanski wrote: > Howdy... > > After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's > rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with an= y > SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with > utilities that let you manage while the OS is running that folks have had > good luck with? I've been happy with the megaraid series on linux at my > job, but I'm wondering if the management utilities are there on freebsd, > etc. > Anyone care to comment on Areca's ARC-11xx PCI-X cards? I'm thinking about getting an 1130 (12-port version). *Is the arcmsr driver in FreeBSD stable? *Any issues with arrays larger then 2TB? *Rebuild times? *Command Line management software? *Is the company BSD friendly, no binary blob object in the driver? *Competent tech support? *What does the ethernet port on the ARC-1130 do? I'm primarily interested in this card because it can do RAID level 6 and based on the benchmarks I've seen it's a top performer. Anyhow, to the OP, stay way from promise cards. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/