From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 17:26:24 2004 Return-Path: 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 26D3316A4CF for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:26:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from util.inch.com (mx.inch.com [216.223.198.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A605E43D55 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:26:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (www.inch.com [216.223.192.20]) i9RHQMAr050807; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:26:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell.inch.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9RHQMJS081589; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:26:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost)i9RHQM4e081586; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:26:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.inch.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:26:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman To: Steve In-Reply-To: <20041027040910.YUGS11892.out008.verizon.net@STACY> Message-ID: <20041027132604.J2588@shell.inch.com> References: <20041027040910.YUGS11892.out008.verizon.net@STACY> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:26:24 -0000 On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steve wrote: > 3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec, > Adaptec will not work with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work > flawlessly. Are you running 4.x or 5.x? Thanks, Charles > > -- > Steve Rieger > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:06 PM > To: stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) > > Hi, > > I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: > > http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port) > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=En > glish+US&prodkey=AAR-2410SA&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fSerial+ATA+RAID > > I'd love to hear from 5.x users with recent 8000-series controllers -- I'm > really leaning towards 5.x for this project as the release schedule finally > matches my build schedule. Both cards look good on paper, and the pricing > is similar. I'm mainly concerned about stability in real-world use. > > I've seen a number of recent positive comments from those using the 3Ware > under 4.x, but as someone with an older Escalade (sorry dmesg doesn't report > the model number), I'm a bit leery. Going to 4.10 caused the thing to lock > up under heavy disk load, apparently the vendor-provided driver is worse > than the old driver Mike Smith put together. > > I used the "Ask 3ware" link on their site to see what the party line was on > FreeBSD and this is what I got back: > > ====== > Charles, our support of FreeBSD is just as good as Windows and Linux (which > is great!). We have embedded support in the main kernel and an open source > driver that customers can compile to whichever kernel they are using if > needed. There is a precompiled driver for both 4.X and 5.X versions on our > website. We also have both an HTML based management utility and CLI > available. Yahoo is actually one of our customers and helped promote the > support for FreeBSD by 3ware. If you have any other questions please let me > know. Regards, > > http://www.3ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp > > David Graas > 3ware Corporate Sales Manager > ====== > > Thanks, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >