Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:46:55 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608230846v1958b7d0hc7f3500680b77eae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44EC0B9B.5020705@withagen.nl> References: <44EC0B9B.5020705@withagen.nl>
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On 8/23/06, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server. > Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at the CeBIT > I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8. > With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual core opteron. > > In itself is this a combo that I thing would do for a long time at my home. ;) > > However the 3ware controler decided not to play nice with 2 of the PCI-X > boards I have here. It gets stuck in the bios disc scan. > Disable int 13. The card is probably trying to load it's boot BIOS and another card is interfering with it... I had a Promise card that loved to f**k with my HighPoint controller. The solution to the problem was disabling int 13 on the HighPoint card by re-flashing the cards BIOS with a special switch set, I didn't need to boot from this card anyways. > So I'm looking for alternatives with good support under amd64. I've seen that > the Adaptecs are supported under aac(4). But what about Promisse or Highpoint > RAID controllers? > Stay away from Adaptec and Promise because they don't support FreeBSD. I would recommend Areca and/or HighPoint because they do officially support FreeBSD. 3Ware does support FreeBSD but I don't have experience with their cards so I can't say anything good or bad about them. If you want to go 64-bit Areca drivers are open source and the FreeBSD man page states that they work on amd64. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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