Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:04:58 -0800 From: Jonathan Feally <vulture@netvulture.com> To: Samuel Clements <sclements@linkline.com> Cc: Mark Picone <wts666@iprimus.com.au> Subject: Re: Looking for supported 32 or 64bit/66Mhz SATA Hardware RAID 5 Controller on 5.3-STABLE Message-ID: <419C3B8A.4080309@netvulture.com> In-Reply-To: <002801c4ccf2$dd6a7530$d232a8c0@LCI> References: <1100666637.419ad70d70a20@www.netvulture.com> <419B09CE.4010600@iprimus.com.au> <002801c4ccf2$dd6a7530$d232a8c0@LCI>
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Samuel Clements wrote: > I also use the Intel RAID cards as well as the 3ware cards. Both > preform very reliably for me. The newest Intel SATA card (SRCS16) > appears to be a re-labelled LSI card and seems to work well using amr: > > amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID> mem 0xf0000000-0xf000ffff irq 16 at device > 1.0 on pci3 > amr0: <LSILogic Intel(R) RAID Controller SRCS16> Firmware 713K, BIOS > G401, 64MB RAM > amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 > amrd0: 476920MB (976732160 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a > > > whereas the older Intel card uses the iir driver - no more unified > driver for the Intel cards! =( As a general rule of thumb, you want > to stay away from the SATA RAID built into the chipsets (like the > ICH5R). These are only going to be good for entry level stuff like > RAID 0 and 1 anyways. Support for these is in the works, but if you > need a good card now, grab an Intel or a 3ware. They both do hardware > XOR and are pretty reasonably priced. > -Sam > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Picone" <wts666@iprimus.com.au> > To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:20 AM > Subject: Re: Looking for supported 32 or 64bit/66Mhz SATA Hardware > RAID 5 Controller on 5.3-STABLE > > >> Hey, >> I had to research this a few months ago, and i found that intel >> sata raid5 cards are the best >> compared to the 3ware sata range in the way of stability and >> support on freebsd, duno about >> Promise, but make sure the card has an XOR processor on it to >> take some load of the cpu, all >> intel raid cards use the same driver which is handy. >> >> -Mark >> >> >> Vulture wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> I've seen some posts on this before with no results. The hardware >>> list doesn't >>> seem to show much on ata type controllers anymore. Hopefully >>> somebody can point >>> me in the direction of a good, decently priced controller. >>> >>> The Promise FastTrak S150 looks good, but is 5.3-STABLE going to get >>> close to >>> using it properly? I would love to get one of the 15 drive external >>> promise >>> SATA RAID to U320 enclosures - but the $15K price tag is a little much. >>> >>> I would use vinum, but SATA driver instability and PCI Bus >>> bottlenecks are >>> keeping my Maxtor 300GB 16MB 7200's from getting close to their >>> potential. >>> >>> Thanks -Jon >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks for the info guys. I'm gald to see that this mailing list is getting some action again! -Jon
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