From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 29 16:38:28 2003 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 6CCA337B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:38:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22F643F43 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0U0bq6F020661; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:37:52 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h0U0bq0L020660; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:37:52 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:37:52 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: WWW Cc: Bruce Campbell , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: seeking recommendation on ATA RAID controller Message-ID: <20030129163752.A19773@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <1043874694.3e384386371b7@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> <20030129162430.P79695-100000@beck.quonix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030129162430.P79695-100000@beck.quonix.net>; from essenz@essenz.com on Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:28:20PM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:28:20PM -0800, WWW wrote: >=20 > I have used the Adaptec 2400A Raid card with FreeBSD, and have never had > any problems. I never used 3ware because I was always weary of the past > problems with firmware of certain IDE hard drives. Though, the new 3ware > Serial-ATA Raid cards sound very good... Hopefully, some FreeBSD users > will venture into those cards. But I think with 3ware you always have to > be carefull with hard drive compatibility. The 3ware controlers we have just work. This is the first I've heard of a firmware compatability issue. --- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OHPeXY6L6fI4GtQRAkchAJ9VPG+ksYmhB6ZcHWWXOA5c7+Hh7ACdGrDE /U7bApV/i1+dIc0agcW/eEM= =i+BC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message