From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 15:25:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3AF16A4DF; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:25:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Received: from mail.pubnix.net (Mail.pubnix.net [192.172.250.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87E343D55; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:25:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (aal.pubnix.net [64.235.216.13]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.pubnix.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k66FPP5F002963; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:25:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Message-ID: <44AD2B65.9080407@pubnix.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:25:25 -0400 From: Alain Hebert Organization: PubNIX, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA300 Controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ahebert@pubnix.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:25:28 -0000 Hi, I've been having the same issues. The conclusion of my testing is that type of card (aka Adaptec 1210SA, Promise PDC2* ) are not stable, reliable, performant. (For my taste btw) The underlying technology is just mickey mouse: They store the config on drive (ok); They dont accelerate mirror that much. (mirror function in driver); If you loose a drive your filesystem jam (since the mirror function is in the driver); You have to rebuilt via the bios (long downtime). The best card are the 3ware 9000/9500 series. Which is a real hard implementation. FYI: I have both success with Marvell 88SX5041 SATA150 and Promise PDC20378 SATA150. I had major failure under load with Adaptec 1210SA and Promise TX2300. Good luck. Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: > Hello all, > > Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... > > Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? > I've been > trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using > a MSI > K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon > as it > sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had > zero > results. I've read that the chipset on this controller is not very > good - > forces serialized access to the controller's channels??? > Nevertheless, I've > got a K8N Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least > "start" the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At this > point, > I'd settle for just knowing "which" SATA300 controller to use that > will work > successfully and "well" with FreeBSD 6.0 OR 6.1. Another question, > would I > have more success installing 6.0 and then upgrading the kernel and > recompiling with a build-world? > > I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation > servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS > mapped to > ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 > config). Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Derrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514-990-9443