From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 05:46:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E98B106568F for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from mail.dannysplace.net (mail.dannysplace.net [80.69.71.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570188FC12 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nas.lan ([203.206.171.212] helo=[192.168.10.10]) by mail.dannysplace.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1NIxt8-00085F-UU; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:17:59 +1000 Message-ID: <4B21D5FE.6050309@dannysplace.net> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:17:50 +1000 From: Danny Carroll User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephane LAPIE References: <4B21A8EF.8000304@darkbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4B21A8EF.8000304@darkbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: danny X-Authenticator: plain X-Sender-Verify: SUCCEEDED (sender exists & accepts mail) X-Exim-Version: 4.69 (build at 13-Aug-2009 20:22:24) X-Date: 2009-12-11 15:17:59 X-Connected-IP: 203.206.171.212:55763 X-Message-Linecount: 41 X-Body-Linecount: 27 X-Message-Size: 1640 X-Body-Size: 1057 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.206.171.212 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: stephane.lapie@darkbsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fbsd@dannysplace.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ferrari.dannysplace.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=8.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.dannysplace.net) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4x and ARC-1300ix-16x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd@dannysplace.net List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:43 -0000 On 11/12/2009 12:05 PM, Stephane LAPIE wrote: > Hello, > > While looking for cheap non-RAID SAS controllers for the purpose of > building ZFS storage based on storage vaults accessed as JBOD, I came > across the following controllers on Areca's website and noticed the > mention "BSD/FreeBSD (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter)". > > They are not reported in the arcmsr(4) manual page, which leaves me > confused as to whether these models are supported or not by FreeBSD 8.0 > at this point, and I would gladly welcome any > comment/experience/recommendation related to using these chips in a > FreeBSD environment. > This looks interesting. It's exactly what I was looking for a few months back. In the end I settled on a 1230-ML and could not be happier. Any ideas of the price? Keep in mind though this card does not appear to have battery backed cache. That is one of the reasons I was keen on the 1230-ML. When you configure the drives in passthrough (not JBOD!) mode, you take full advantage of the cache. Just my 0.02c worth. -D