From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 18:18:55 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 3B11A16A474 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:18:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B4943D53 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:18:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i11so210945nzi for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:18:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aFh7neZlWVnfAA9V4dgG6/ga6n319urPMYclT4jKpZQf8xxJxviuvAwpxP9Vu8nwjEQUIBuxdgh0DpDSRNJ9f0uaEGJ3XgxofCuSI37y4jI5Qm+dXWRoOCA6Kn9RE0UHRh9zfezTGbhwG6lbLKwBS1ZHULg//afsvVTWySpoZ7Y= Received: by 10.36.220.10 with SMTP id s10mr785748nzg; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.182.7 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:18:52 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060620060845.U1114@ganymede.hub.org> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:18:55 -0000 On 6/21/06, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Marc > >G. Fournier > >Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:24 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? > > [deleted] > > > > What can we, as a community, due to improve this situation? > > > > Simple. If you want to run RAID-5 then purchase the HiPoint card or > the 3ware card, both of them come with manufacturer-written drivers. > 3ware is really great, they have a developer with committ rights and > they just stick their driver right into the FreeBSD source repository. > s/HiPoint/HighPoint/ a.k.a HighPoint Technologies, Inc. or simply HPT. I have two HighPoint controllers and like them both: FreeBSD 6.1/i386 + HPT2220 + 8x250GB. FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE/amd64 + HPT1820A + 8x300GB. Areca also supports FreeBSD: $ man arcmsr (FreeBSD 5.4+) http://www.areca.com.tw My next controller will probably be from Areca because they support RAID level 6 and have multi-lane connectors... maybe ARC-1130ML + 12x500GB. Does anyone know what SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) RAID controllers are supported by FreeBSD?, they can use SATA drives correct? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/