From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 22:24:11 2006 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 250BA16A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:24:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CA143D5A for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:24:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94046B85A for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:24:09 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <6CADC5BD-FBF5-472E-8087-8494AD03549C@khera.org> References: <6CADC5BD-FBF5-472E-8087-8494AD03549C@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:24:09 -0500 To: freebsd-stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: Re: SCSI RAID card recommendation (1/2 height PCI-X U320 SCSI dual channel) 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, 05 Jan 2006 22:24:11 -0000 On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: > Anyhow, I'm having a hard time finding 1/2 height U320 RAID cards > with dual channels (I can't imagine how the connectors would fit, > but hey I can hope). Does anyone have any recommendations? > Naturally I'm going to run 6.0-RELEASE on it. Ok... seems that my only likely candidate is the Adaptec 2230SLP. I'm not a big adaptec fan so I have little experience with these. There was a discussion on the -scsi list a year ago and the card is listed as supported, but it is hard to find how stable these cards are and how well they perform under heavy I/O + network load. The only other aac controller I have is a Dell PERC type which is god- awful slow, but I hear that's dell's fault not adaptec's. I don't know what to believe there. That card is quite stable however. Any experiences with this that anyone wishes to share?