From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 17:39:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1FB37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:39:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f730coM60819; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:38:50 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.1) id xma060808; Fri, 3 Aug 01 10:38:43 +1000 Received: from localhost (carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f730cgP03382; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:38:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:38:42 +1000 (EST) From: Carl Makin X-X-Sender: To: Miklos Niedermayer Cc: Ken Menzel , Subject: Re: PERC 3 Dell 2500 and FreeBSD 4.3 stable In-Reply-To: <20010802101017.A27852@bsd.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Miklos Niedermayer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:33:13AM -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: > > > I have had terrible problems with the perc controllers from Dell > > that have been discussed before on this list. However we order our > I can confirm this. We are running a machine with an Adaptec 3200S / 64 > MB controller and it's simply **very fast**, even with RAID5. And it We're running a number of PERC cards in various boxes with excellent results here. We have one box with a PERC2/SC and 200Gb of RAID5 that hasn't skipped a beat in over 12 months, we another with the onboard PERC3/SI configured with disk mirroring that runs squid very well, and another box with a PERC2/QC that is a test box that really hauls ass. We're very happy with the PERC stuff now. Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message