From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 20:24:27 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 3012C16A415 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 20:24:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from myself@rojer.pp.ru) Received: from wooster.rojer.pp.ru (wooster.rojer.pp.ru [80.68.246.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69D143D58 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 20:24:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from myself@rojer.pp.ru) Received: from wooster.rojer.pp.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wooster.rojer.pp.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id C858C11417 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:24:14 +0400 (MSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.5-rojer (2006-08-29) on wooster.rojer.pp.ru X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.5-rojer Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wooster.rojer.pp.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:24:10 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <4526BB4E.1070505@rojer.pp.ru> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:23:42 -0700 From: Deomid Ryabkov User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org References: <45265712.7000309@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <45265712.7000309@netfence.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Intel SRCU42E 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: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:24:27 -0000 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > Is the above controller supported? > man amr reports SRCU42X (same model but PCI-X instead of PCI-E) and > MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E (which should be the same as SRCU42E) working, so I > would suppose so, but I thought I'd better ask before buying. yes, they are both supported by amr(4), but of these two, i'd recommend to go with LSI's MegaRAID, rather than Intel's flavor. first, 320-2E has a better IOP than -2X (e.g., should be faster - but not that i have tested) second, intel, in their version of bios, has completely removed the text version of configurator (i.e. Ctrl-M), only leaving GUI. not only is it inconvenient to navigate without a mouse (tab, tab, tab...), but it is impossible to create an array - you are supposed to select disks by ctrl-clicking and tehre is no other way (at least i couldn't figure out). so you pretty much have to have a mouse to manage your arrays from bios, which sucks. in all other respects Intel SRC* and LSI's controllers are pretty much the same hardware. -- Deomid Ryabkov aka Rojer myself@rojer.pp.ru rojer@sysadmins.ru ICQ: 8025844