Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:36:13 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supermicro X6DHP-8G2 Message-ID: <4265337D.8000807@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050419101508.74613c99.kgunders@teamcool.net> References: <4264D40C.9050604@melange-it.nl> <42651FDC.405@samsco.org> <20050419101508.74613c99.kgunders@teamcool.net>
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Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:12:28 -0600 > Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > > >>Marc Lambrichs wrote: >> >>>I want to use raid5 on my supermicro 6014P-82R with a X6DHP-8G2 >>>motherboard. So we had to let go of our Adaptec 2010S ZCR card, because >>>it's not supported. What would you recommend to use instead? >>> >>>Cheers, >>>marc >>> >> >>The 2010S is special since it uses the non-64-bit-clean ASR driver. >>Other Adaptec cards like the 2200 use the AAC driver which is >>64-bit clean and is known to work on amd64. The LSI MegaRAID >>line of cards uses the AMR driver which is also 64-bit clean and >>known to work. Those are your only two choices for SCSI RAID. >>One thing to watch out for is that Intel rebrands ZCR cards from >>both ICP/Vortex and LSI. The driver for the former, IIR, is not >>64-bit clean. > > > Thanks for this Scott. Is it safe to conclude that the Adaptec > 2130S listed under fbsd hw-amd64 fall under this category since they > use same driver? Also safe to assume same for 2130SLP, wh/I don't > see listed?? Or is Apdaptec playing chipset games between these models?? > I believe that the 2130S and 2130SLP are equivalent. I haven't seen the SLP variant, though, and it might have a different PCI ID that the driver doesn't recognise. Fixing that is easy if it is indeed the case. I haven't done a lot of testing with the 2130, but I believe that it should work. Scott
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