Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:30:47 -0800 From: Mark Dotson <praxis@dmglobal.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Brian Szymanski <ski@mediamatters.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: well-supported SATA RAID card? Message-ID: <44125277.60703@dmglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060310101705.1050a108@64.7.153.2> References: <1219.68.49.189.193.1141981287.squirrel@68.49.189.193> <6.2.3.4.0.20060310101705.1050a108@64.7.153.2>
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3ware cards have worked fantastically for me... until I tried using them with the Tyan S5360-1U Motherboard. I've not been able to boot any distro of FreeBSD 5.x or 6.x with this board and the 3ware 95x series or 8x series SATA cards. However, other then that 1 board incompatibility, they've worked like a champ for me for years. -Mark Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:01 AM 10/03/2006, Brian Szymanski wrote: >> Howdy... >> >> 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. > > The 3Ware cards work really well under FreeBSD. I have dozens I have > been using for some time and they work and work well. Highly > recommended. Over the years I am sure I have replaced a few dozen dead > drives and have not (knock on wood) had any issues rebuilding degraded > sets. Another card I have been recently using is the ARECA. Its quite a > fast card and has a similar set of management utilities. I have not been > using it as long as the 3ware, but it seems pretty good too. > > Both cards will install out of the box FreeBSD. The management apps can > be downloaded for free from www.3ware.com and ftp.areca.com.tw > > > ---Mike > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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