RE: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

steve_at_n2sw.com

To: "'Charles Sprickman'" <spork@inch.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:35:03 -0400


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Steve Rieger 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:26 PM
To: Steve
Cc: stable@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)
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&langu
> age=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
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