From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 16:39:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CC416A4D0 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:39:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E1D43D53 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:39:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3JGfcxO082445; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:41:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4265337D.8000807@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:36:13 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Gunderson References: <4264D40C.9050604@melange-it.nl> <42651FDC.405@samsco.org> <20050419101508.74613c99.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <20050419101508.74613c99.kgunders@teamcool.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supermicro X6DHP-8G2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:39:35 -0000 Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:12:28 -0600 > Scott Long 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