Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:11:05 +0200 From: Lukas Razik <freebsd@razik.name> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Message-ID: <48A2C149.2040308@razik.name> In-Reply-To: <20080813102738.GA89899@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <200808110000.58666.freebsd@razik.name> <20080810234421.GA90311@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200808112221.00672.freebsd@razik.name> <20080811205530.GA54217@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080813091654.GA86595@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <48A2B5BC.7080701@razik.name> <20080813102738.GA89899@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Hello! Jeremy Chadwick schrieb: >>I know this controller (as I wrote you) for some days now. Here in >>Germany I've only seen one Online-Shop where this controller is listed. >>If the HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 (100EUR =~ 150USD) isn't as good as I >>hope, then I will test the Areca ARC-1200 (140EUR =~ 210USD). > > > I've stayed away from HighPoint since the release of their HPT366 and > HPT370/372 chips, which were horrible. That said, *please* let me > know how their RocketRAID products perform and behave under FreeBSD. > I'm interested to know if they've learned from past mistakes. lol, same here... :-) I have a HPT370 on my last motherboard and it didn't work with linux-2.4.X and SMP enabled - although it was "supported". Under FreeBSD it worked luckily good for me and this was one of the reasons for me to use FreeBSD instead of Linux on my dual CPU system since 2001. Now I'm a _big_ FreeBSD fan and I like the job of you guys! BTW: That's also the reason for my current (unsolved) decision to buy a GTX260 (because of nVIDIA's FreeBSD-driver) or to take ATI's cheaper and tendentially better Radeon HD4870 withoud FreeBSD-drivers. ;-) Hmmm... In linux-2.6.X these HPT370 chips where no longer supported. In 2006 I bought the Promise FastTrak 4310 (also Fake-RAID) for my new SATA-HDs and had again only problems under Linux and FreeBSD. http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-hardware&id=2320838 My solution was the 3ware 8006-2LP and I want never again any Fake-RAID card. But the 3ware and Areca controllers aren't cheap and because of that I want to test HPT's new HW-RAID card. I will buy it at the beginning of September and then I'll test and benchmark it. I'm also _very_ interested because it would be a cheaper solution and I'll inform you about my experiences ASAP. :-) >>But you wrote "It lacks an IOP [...]". Do you mean that it will have no >>Intel IOP because they only write it has a "500MHz Storage processor" >>and therefore it will be not as fast as the other controllers from Areca? > > > Correct. I'm lead to believe that the ambiguous "500Mhz Storage > processor" item refers to a non-Intel processor of some sort. > O.K. I see. That's a good hint! Regards, Lukas
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