From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 10:17:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6557237B404 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inform.com.hk (mail.inform.com.hk [206.220.132.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81A2A43FBF for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from achan@achan.com) Received: (qmail 31683 invoked by uid 0); 13 Aug 2003 17:17:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pluto) (achan@achan.com@203.169.194.121) by mail.inform.com.hk with SMTP; 13 Aug 2003 17:17:53 -0000 Message-ID: <001b01c361be$d2c39760$0a00a8c0@pluto> From: "Andrew Chan" To: References: Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 01:17:49 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: HighPoint RAID driver - Proprietary vs. FreeBSD ataraid X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:17:57 -0000 Greetings, I have a HighPoint 370A based RAID card and I had used the FreeBSD ataraid driver (4.7/4.8) with good results. But I am paranoid that one of these days, the dreadful "lost interrupt" or "timeout" messages will pop up, which they did for a Promise Fasttrak TX2 card of mine. I notice that HighPoint has its own proprietary driver for FreeBSD and it SEEMS to offer more features. Has anyone used that? Would you recommend the native FreeBSD ataraid driver or the HighPoint scsi emulation driver? Thanks for your input! Andrew