From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 08:20:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B23316A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:20:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.76.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C8E43D5A for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:20:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wts666@iprimus.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.9] (203.134.23.144) by smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.036) (authenticated as wts666) id 4192B04600296074 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:20:14 +1100 Message-ID: <419B09CE.4010600@iprimus.com.au> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:20:30 +1100 From: Mark Picone User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <1100666637.419ad70d70a20@www.netvulture.com> In-Reply-To: <1100666637.419ad70d70a20@www.netvulture.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Looking for supported 32 or 64bit/66Mhz SATA Hardware RAID 5 Controller on 5.3-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:20:16 -0000 Hey, I had to research this a few months ago, and i found that intel sata raid5 cards are the best compared to the 3ware sata range in the way of stability and support on freebsd, duno about Promise, but make sure the card has an XOR processor on it to take some load of the cpu, all intel raid cards use the same driver which is handy. -Mark Vulture wrote: >Hello All, >I've seen some posts on this before with no results. The hardware list doesn't >seem to show much on ata type controllers anymore. Hopefully somebody can point >me in the direction of a good, decently priced controller. > >The Promise FastTrak S150 looks good, but is 5.3-STABLE going to get close to >using it properly? I would love to get one of the 15 drive external promise >SATA RAID to U320 enclosures - but the $15K price tag is a little much. > >I would use vinum, but SATA driver instability and PCI Bus bottlenecks are >keeping my Maxtor 300GB 16MB 7200's from getting close to their potential. > >Thanks -Jon > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >