From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 10:38:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC18216A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:38:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lon-mail-2.gradwell.net (lon-mail-2.gradwell.net [193.111.201.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E5F43D55 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:38:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cbh-freebsd-current@groups.chrishedley.com) X-Gradwell-Debug: delivering mail for [amd64@freebsd.org] to mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]:25 Received: from cpc2-oxfd4-4-0-cust119.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [80.3.246.119] (helo: mail.cbhnet)1.137) id 4174eea4.a6ed.33 for amd64@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:38:28 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cbhnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052EE31B018 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:09:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.cbhnet ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.cbhnet [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04613-07 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:09:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from teapot.cbhnet (teapot.cbhnet [192.168.1.1]) by mail.cbhnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABD731AFF6 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:09:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:09:33 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Hedley X-X-Sender: cbh@teapot.cbhnet In-Reply-To: <5F8020A8-2141-11D9-A8A9-000D9335BCEC@anduin.net> Message-ID: <20041019075735.C866@teapot.cbhnet> References: <000501c4b547$6a577b00$0300000a@transcon> <5F8020A8-2141-11D9-A8A9-000D9335BCEC@anduin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-962440433-1098169773=:866" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at chrishedley.com cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:38:29 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-962440433-1098169773=:866 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Eirik =D8verby wrote: > This one is gonna be tricky on you, I think. The driver used for most Ada= ptec=20 > RAID controllers (IDE and SCSI alike) isn't currently working on amd64 (i= n=20 > 64-bit mode, that is). I have repeatedly asked if anyone will step up to = the=20 > task and fix that, as I have an Adaptec Zero-Channel RAID add-on-board fo= r my=20 > dual opteron just collecting dust at the moment, but the general answer i= s=20 > 'no time'... Too bad. I've found that the driver for the 2410SA (aac) works fine in 64-bit mode;= =20 although I'm not compiling for amd64 right now, but (lack of) problems=20 with the 2410SA isn't the reason. > Then again, I have nothing but really REALLY bad experiences with Adaptec= IDE=20 > RAID solutions, so perhaps you should choose differently there.. Most all= the=20 > others are supported, and supported well afaik. The card seems reliable enough once it's up and running, although getting= =20 it configured can be a major headache as the configuration software is=20 terrible and the card itself seems prone to crashing when being configured= =20 (even using the BIOS menus). That, and taking forever to build an array=20 (8 hours for a 400GB RAID-10 seems excessive) and terribly slow write=20 speeds (~7MB/sec for sequential writes to a RAID-10 array - something is=20 seriously wrong with its design for the performance to be _that_ bad.=20 That's the same with different OSes and on different MBs/CPUs as well, so= =20 it's not a FreeBSD or incompatability issue) means I personally wouldn't=20 consider buying another one. The OP is probably better off looking=20 elsewhere. (The hot-swap box is nice, though, although it transpires=20 that's made by SuperMicro, not Adaptec). Chris. --0-962440433-1098169773=:866--