From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 3:49:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C997E37B401 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 03:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f73Ap7B00754; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 03:51:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108031051.f73Ap7B00754@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: James Satterfield Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERC 3 Dell 2500 and FreeBSD 4.3 stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:39:55 PDT." <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B0222BA6B@exchange.epr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 03:51:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > # Begin rambling > The Perc 3QC is an AMI Enterprise 1600 card. I've got two of them. They both > suck. =) > I've done a LOT of disk IO benchmarking with the Perc 3Di and 3QC cards in > the last few months. Awful results. If anyone is interested, I could send > them some of my findings (and a few things Dell has said about the > performance). Basically, I ended up removing the QC cards, installing a few > 2 channel ultra160 cards, and running software raid because the hardware > solution was so poor. It was very nice of Dell to start including a branded > version of Veritas Volume Manager as their array management solution. Since there's no Veritas Volume Manager for FreeBSD, I assume this was on some other platform. I've had generally good reports about both the AMI and Adaptec controllers on FreeBSD, and if you have any specific gripes about the cards or drivers in this environment, we'd be glad to hear them. I'm sorry to hear that you had such a terrible time, but I don't think your reports are particularly germane. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message