Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:30:01 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID support? Which controller best to use? Message-ID: <20051126032844.C1053@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <43880ABE.3020801@gneto.com> References: <20051119120051.39BE216A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <20051119200222.V2029@roble.com> <43876D0E.6080503@samsco.org> <20051125131721.K11440@roble.com> <43880ABE.3020801@gneto.com>
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Martin Nilsson wrote: > Roger Marquis wrote: >> Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: >> >>>> Sadly, the fast LSI SCSI RAID drivers either don't exist for FreeBSD >>>> or are not mature. Adaptec SCSI RAID is also not as well supported >>>> as some of the SATA RAID cards. >>> >>> >>> What? Is this some sort of troll? >> >> >> Scott, >> >> Are you saying that the mpt drivers are no longer "largely >> unmaintained" or that there are management and monitoring tools >> for any Adaptec (U320) card? > > In my book "fast LSI SCSI RAID" refers to the amr driver and the MegaRAID > cards, not the cheap LSI SCSI boards with IME (Integrated Mirroring Enhanced > - RAID 1E) that uses mpt. > > The amr boards have excellent support in FreeBSD and even official support > from LSI. LSI have mgmt tools available for FreeBSD on their web. I'm just looking at getting a system with an Intel SRCU42X card in it ... this is supported by the amr driver, so do I automatically assume that this is supported by LSI also, even though it is 'branded' an Intel card? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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