From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 15:46:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 AA70E16A4DA for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5B343D6A for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so145016wxd for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:46:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AHYeQGZh6Ctsa7LzooVbeHEd+JJMdtO8WlVkn8rqawSrVoLjr84bYbLBRSevP5loC/rk7UjCZi2+fKqzYqs38c10iuJzq3UGs50fbu7b0y2XrQZRGg2iGIjefaPGkBwK90O2V1Mmb+gaTK9Fw27/xn7QIABRBExn3dA5VKQllbw= Received: by 10.70.13.1 with SMTP id 1mr712803wxm; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:46:55 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Willem Jan Withagen" In-Reply-To: <44EC0B9B.5020705@withagen.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44EC0B9B.5020705@withagen.nl> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards 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: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:46:58 -0000 On 8/23/06, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Hi, > > I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server. > Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at the CeBIT > I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8. > With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual core opteron. > > In itself is this a combo that I thing would do for a long time at my home. ;) > > However the 3ware controler decided not to play nice with 2 of the PCI-X > boards I have here. It gets stuck in the bios disc scan. > Disable int 13. The card is probably trying to load it's boot BIOS and another card is interfering with it... I had a Promise card that loved to f**k with my HighPoint controller. The solution to the problem was disabling int 13 on the HighPoint card by re-flashing the cards BIOS with a special switch set, I didn't need to boot from this card anyways. > So I'm looking for alternatives with good support under amd64. I've seen that > the Adaptecs are supported under aac(4). But what about Promisse or Highpoint > RAID controllers? > Stay away from Adaptec and Promise because they don't support FreeBSD. I would recommend Areca and/or HighPoint because they do officially support FreeBSD. 3Ware does support FreeBSD but I don't have experience with their cards so I can't say anything good or bad about them. If you want to go 64-bit Areca drivers are open source and the FreeBSD man page states that they work on amd64. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/