Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:49:44 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Tadaaki Nagao <abtk@shitamachi.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current favored SCSI RAID controller? Message-ID: <4468B128.4020005@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060513.014529.85131055.abtk@shitamachi.org> References: <20060511210418.GB93602@sysmon.tcworks.net> <44640D95.6010409@samsco.org> <20060513.014529.85131055.abtk@shitamachi.org>
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Tadaaki Nagao wrote: > In "Re: Current favored SCSI RAID controller?", > Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > >>The Adaptec (non-ICP) controllers probably have the best command line >>management tool. The ICP tool is passable, but getting it to work seems >>to be problematic for some people. The LSI tool is very bare bones. >>Just about all of the SCSI RAID controllers out there are supported well >>by FreeBSD, with the exception of the older Adaptec controllers that >>fall under the asr driver. Avoid that at all costs. > > > Would you give some more information if possible, on why the asr > controllers should be avoided and/or what issues they have? > > I'm getting a little anxious, because I've been using tens of asr > RAID controllers at work for years and haven't realized (or simply > can't remember ;-) any issue except that the CLI management tool > isn't clear which option takes a physical or logical disk address. > For amd64, the asr driver is completely broken, and fixing it requires a lot of work. For i386, it does work, but it is unmaintained. Scott
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