From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 20:46:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 DECAE16A41C for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:46:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@fruitsalad.org) Received: from mandarin.fruitsalad.org (pc117.net160.koping.net [81.16.160.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EF543D53 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:46:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@fruitsalad.org) Received: from [192.168.254.233] (helo=kontact.fruitsalad.org) by mandarin.fruitsalad.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1DtAay-000Di5-7J for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:46:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kontact.fruitsalad.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822BF13EA18 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:46:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kontact.fruitsalad.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC6813E87E for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:46:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kontact.fruitsalad.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kolab2.universe.hasta.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 98450-10 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:46:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from msjoberg.universe.hasta.se (unknown [192.168.15.14]) by kontact.fruitsalad.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0646913E4E2 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:46:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Matt Douhan To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:47:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.50 References: <200507141343.26708.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <200507141343.26708.fcash@ocis.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507142247.25648.matt@fruitsalad.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kontact.fruitsalad.org Subject: Re: Q: Looking for a recommendation for hardware RAID cards and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 14 Jul 2005 20:46:14 -0000 On Thursday 14 July 2005 22.43, Freddie Cash wrote: > On July 14, 2005 11:33 am, J. Nyhuis wrote: > > I am looking at purchasing a 3ware SATA 8006-2LP RAID (SATA) > > controllers for a servers running FreeBSD 5.4-stable. Is anyone out > > there using a SATA 3ware RAID controller card on FreeBSD and would be > > willing share their experiences, good, bad, or otherwise? > > 3ware has done well by me with my Linux boxes, but I am willing to > > consider other vendors if they have a better product. > > I've heard great things about the 9000-series from 3Ware on the -current > and -stable mailing lists. There's even vendor support (FreeBSD drivers, > CLI management, web management, etc) from 3Ware, as well as the 3dm ports > and native drivers. we use both the 8000 and the 9000 they are really nice and fast, I would stay away from the PATA 7000 though it is not very fun to work with and very particular about what fw it has loaded. Matt