From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 01:06:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A2116A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:06:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from util.inch.com (mx.inch.com [216.223.198.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66FB43D5C for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:06:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (www.inch.com [216.223.192.20]) i9R16AxW087524 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:06:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell.inch.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9R16AJS026548 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:06:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost)i9R16A4M026545 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:06:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.inch.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:06:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041026205844.V2588@shell.inch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:06:12 -0000 Hi, I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port) http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR-2410SA&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fSerial+ATA+RAID I'd love to hear from 5.x users with recent 8000-series controllers -- I'm really leaning towards 5.x for this project as the release schedule finally matches my build schedule. Both cards look good on paper, and the pricing is similar. I'm mainly concerned about stability in real-world use. I've seen a number of recent positive comments from those using the 3Ware under 4.x, but as someone with an older Escalade (sorry dmesg doesn't report the model number), I'm a bit leery. Going to 4.10 caused the thing to lock up under heavy disk load, apparently the vendor-provided driver is worse than the old driver Mike Smith put together. I used the "Ask 3ware" link on their site to see what the party line was on FreeBSD and this is what I got back: ====== Charles, our support of FreeBSD is just as good as Windows and Linux (which is great!). We have embedded support in the main kernel and an open source driver that customers can compile to whichever kernel they are using if needed. There is a precompiled driver for both 4.X and 5.X versions on our website. We also have both an HTML based management utility and CLI available. Yahoo is actually one of our customers and helped promote the support for FreeBSD by 3ware. If you have any other questions please let me know. Regards, http://www.3ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp David Graas 3ware Corporate Sales Manager ====== Thanks, Charles