From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 23:55:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C73316A406 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:55:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30F513C4B5 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:55:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 41729 invoked by uid 0); 8 Feb 2007 23:55:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (216.220.116.154) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Feb 2007 23:55:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:55:10 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Geoffrey Giesemann In-Reply-To: <20070208233918.GA24428@cs.rmit.edu.au> Message-ID: References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu> <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> <20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan> <200702081902.l18J24Dm055927@lava.sentex.ca> <20070208195410.GA38036@icarus.home.lan> <20070208233918.GA24428@cs.rmit.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for 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, 08 Feb 2007 23:55:25 -0000 On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Geoffrey Giesemann wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:34:57PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> -They added a moving part (2-wire fan, no tach) to a "mission-critical" >> part. That seems real stupid. After the bearings die in 2-3 years, what >> happens to your card? Does it melt or just start acting weird? If the >> engineers didn't consider that, what other failure modes did their limited >> creativity miss? :) >> > > The fan does have a tachometer which you can monitor from the card BIOS > or using the cli binary. > > You can also disable the tachometer so you can swap the heatsink+fan for > the larger heatsink (w/o fan) that comes in the box. These were a few of the things that their pre-sales folks were not able to tell me... > You can find all of this out by *gasp* reading the manual. I did flip through it fairly quickly, but I'm not even sure that these features were available at the time I compared the Areca to the 3Ware. The best info I could find at the time about the fan was looking at the picture on their website - it showed a small heatsink+fan with two wires (no tach). I'm certainly not trying to push people away from the Areca cards - the more FreeBSD people out there using these the better. Next time we may buy some Arecas since I now am finding some positive feedback from the FreeBSD community. Charles > --Geoff > _______________________________________________ > 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" >