Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:11:56 +0300 From: Alexander Sabourenkov <screwdriver@lxnt.info> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? Message-ID: <45CC8F3C.2070808@lxnt.info> In-Reply-To: <E5797C35DEFA014A96C2171380F0EEE4016AE6B9@bacchus.ThinkBurstMedia.local> References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu> <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> <20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan> <c7aff4ef0702080952i7abb4a4dpe15e2554019b815f@mail.gmail.com><004401c74c31$f8159160$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45CC72D4.9040104@lxnt.info> <E5797C35DEFA014A96C2171380F0EEE4016AE6B9@bacchus.ThinkBurstMedia.local>
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Jaime Bozza wrote: >> Hardware RAID1 buys you nothing in perfomance and reliability >> for a prolonged headache with drivers, bios insanity and >> monitoring+control tools. > > > Intel does seem to have a few hardware-based RAID controllers here: > http://www.intel.com/products/server/raid/ > > I don't see any driver or support for them in FreeBSD though. > Those are rebranded LSI Megaraid units, amr(4). They have mostly-unusable GUI bios (you actually have to have a mouse plugged in to do anything with it), no up-to-date FreeBSD control utility, though some reverse-engineering work resulted in a simple monitoring utility. They work ok (SCSI ones at least), but configuration and maintenance leave much to be desired. -- ./lxnt
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