From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 01:09:46 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 B7CB616A47A for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:09:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0504743D49 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:09:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE0A290C38; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:39:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54865-04; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:39:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21E0290C1E; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:39:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2935347F89; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:39:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226A647DD2; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:39:32 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:39:32 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060621183832.H1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060620060845.U1114@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt 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: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:09:46 -0000 On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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? SAS is what I'm using in our HP servers ... don't know about SATA drives, since the SAS drives are closer to a 'laptop size' then full size drive ... the HP controller is supported by the CISS driver, and is, by far, IMHO, the best driver we have, since you don't need any 'external utilities' to check the status of the RAID controller ... wish they all provided that :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664