From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 01:35:10 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 DE46D16A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:35:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C34443D55 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:35:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@n2sw.com) Received: from STACY ([68.175.9.97]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041028013508.RSWN23519.out001.verizon.net@STACY>; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:35:08 -0500 From: "Steve" To: "'Charles Sprickman'" Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:35:03 -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: <20041027132604.J2588@shell.inch.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-Index: AcS8SkJZ6v5j8sfgRguRchFRaFVHDAARBOdw X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [68.175.9.97] at Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:35:05 -0500 Message-Id: <20041028013508.RSWN23519.out001.verizon.net@STACY> cc: stable@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:35:10 -0000 both -- Steve Rieger -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:26 PM To: Steve Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steve wrote: > 3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec, Adaptec will not work > with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work flawlessly. Are you running 4.x or 5.x? Thanks, Charles > > -- > 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&langu > age=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" > _______________________________________________ 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"