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To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:07:51 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:53:26 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Cc: Brian Szymanski <ski@mediamatters.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: well-supported SATA RAID card? 
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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:07:51 +0100
> From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> 
> Mornin'
> 
> > After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's
> > rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any
> > SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with
> > utilities that let you manage while the OS is running that folks have had
> > good luck with? I've been happy with the megaraid series on linux at my
> > job, but I'm wondering if the management utilities are there on freebsd,
> > etc.
> 
> http://www.icp-vortex.com/english/product/pci/rz_sata_8/8586rz_e.htm
> 
> Expensive? Yes.
> 
> Fast, reliable, cheap - pick any two ;-)

Well, they are also probably not too cheap, but I have been very happy
with the 3Ware SATA card. 3Ware has been very good at support for
FreeBSD and the management tool (3DM2) is in ports.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634