From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 05:10:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 061FC16A41C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:10:05 +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 C02D543D48 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:10:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C403964BA06; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:10:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46847-08; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-176-51.eastlink.ca [24.224.176.51]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF41B64B9AE; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:10:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 517A13418D; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:10:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBB733E4A; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:10:02 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:10:02 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Patrick M. Hausen" In-Reply-To: <200506180943.j5I9hcOF019234@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> Message-ID: <20050619020755.R90456@ganymede.hub.org> References: <200506180943.j5I9hcOF019234@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is considered "the best supported" RAID controller for 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:10:05 -0000 On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello! > >> The subject says it all ... I'm looking a new server, and right now have >> built it around the SRCZCRX PCI-X 128MB, since I've had good luck with the >> Intel RAID controllers with 4.x, and I *really* like the storcon CLI >> utility ... but, with the move to 5.x, I'm wondering if there is something >> else I should be looking at, or is this still a good card to go with? > > IMHO it's the entire product line of ICP Vortex, now owned > by Adaptec. These cards really rock. Battery backed up cache, > RAID 1+0, driver maintained my company's engineers, yet in > the stock FreeBSD kernel, curses based management utility > to repair arrays without reboot, unattended rebuild if > you exchange a broken disk with a brand new one, same > interface to the host for _all_ products including SATA, ... 'k, its the above that I've grown to love with the Intel cards ... do you have a URL for these? Checking Adaptec's site, they don't seem to explicitly list the ICP Vortex stuff ... Also, is there a particular card that I should avoid, in their line up, or are they all good? I'm looking to put this into an Intel SR1400 Server Platform ... the motherboard has onboard U320 SCSI, so I was figuring to go the 0 Channel route ... and the SR1400 is 3x drive bays, so would be going RAID5 for this ... thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664