From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 2:48:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C506137B403 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:48:18 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 02:48:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100s or 5400s ?? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020529094818374.AAA476@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 05:28:37 -0400 > From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" > > On Monday, May 27, 2002, at 04:21 , RJ45 wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > I wanted to ask if Adaptec 2100s is well supported by FreeBSD or not. > > I have to buy a mail server with RAID capability. > > I have seen Adaptec 5400s is supported by FreeBSD but it is a high > > profile and high cost product not affordable for me. > > I have searched around without success I only found out 5400s is well > > supported but I do not know if 2100s is, and I Am interested to know it. > > thank you very much > > > > I've been using 1 for over a year in production and another just > installed in a production machine. Both for mirroring, not striping. > Note that the RAM cache on these is not battery backed. > > best > Chad Bear in mind that there are models between the ones mentioned, some of which either come with or can be upgraded to battery-backed cache. The following Adaptec cards are based on DPT designs: 3200s 3210s 3400s 3410s Other supported adapters include: Mylex Acceleraid LSI/AMI Megaraid Nice thing about the Adaptec/DPT cards is that at least at the moment, they're the only ones that have FreeBSD-specific control utilities available so you can monitor or change the status of the array without rebooting. I haven't tried it yet. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message