From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 07:30:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CADB216A420 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7F143D5C for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAA7C08BE5; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:30:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00748-01; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:30:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A4BC089F4; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:30:01 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A59963F051; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:30:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9329B3C043; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:30:01 -0400 (AST) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:30:01 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Martin Nilsson In-Reply-To: <43880ABE.3020801@gneto.com> Message-ID: <20051126032844.C1053@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20051119120051.39BE216A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <20051119200222.V2029@roble.com> <43876D0E.6080503@samsco.org> <20051125131721.K11440@roble.com> <43880ABE.3020801@gneto.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: Roger Marquis , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID support? Which controller best to use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:30:03 -0000 On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Martin Nilsson wrote: > Roger Marquis wrote: >> Scott Long wrote: >> >>>> Sadly, the fast LSI SCSI RAID drivers either don't exist for FreeBSD >>>> or are not mature. Adaptec SCSI RAID is also not as well supported >>>> as some of the SATA RAID cards. >>> >>> >>> What? Is this some sort of troll? >> >> >> Scott, >> >> Are you saying that the mpt drivers are no longer "largely >> unmaintained" or that there are management and monitoring tools >> for any Adaptec (U320) card? > > In my book "fast LSI SCSI RAID" refers to the amr driver and the MegaRAID > cards, not the cheap LSI SCSI boards with IME (Integrated Mirroring Enhanced > - RAID 1E) that uses mpt. > > The amr boards have excellent support in FreeBSD and even official support > from LSI. LSI have mgmt tools available for FreeBSD on their web. I'm just looking at getting a system with an Intel SRCU42X card in it ... this is supported by the amr driver, so do I automatically assume that this is supported by LSI also, even though it is 'branded' an Intel card? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664