From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 04:09:11 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 4475D16A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:09:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB9343D2F for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:09:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@n2sw.com) Received: from STACY ([68.175.9.97]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041027040910.YUGS11892.out008.verizon.net@STACY>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:09:10 -0500 From: "Steve" To: "'Charles Sprickman'" , Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:09:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <20041026205844.V2588@shell.inch.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 thread-index: AcS7wTVE8yo92ZVARWKIvvj7IJBOpwAGWDAg X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [68.175.9.97] at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:09:06 -0500 Message-Id: <20041027040910.YUGS11892.out008.verizon.net@STACY> Subject: RE: 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 04:09:11 -0000 I have both of them and will say this much 3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec, Adaptec will not work with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work flawlessly. -- Steve Rieger -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:06 PM To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) 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=En glish+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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"