Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:24:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiI 3112 time out problems and suggestions for a good sata controller. Message-ID: <20060105091402.A95323@kerplunk.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <20060104215937.3ba2c636@vixen42.vulpes> References: <20060104215937.3ba2c636@vixen42.vulpes>
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> The machine this is running on has releng_5 on it. > > I was wondering if any one had any suggestions on a good for a good > sata pci card that preferably has 4 connectors on it. The standard well supported RAID cards under FreeBSD as I have experienced: Promise, HighPoint, and 3Ware. I've used Promise and HighPoint cards so far, and I have an older 3Ware 58xx card waiting to go into a server I'm starting to get parts for. I've had zero issues with any of these 3 manufacturers so far, and the cards that I have used have all served me very well over the past few years. FreeBSD has support for most of the controllers (except for the brandy-new ones, which usually get supported pretty quickly with the -STABLE branches) right out of the box. Promise cards I think are all "soft" RAID cards, meaning I haven't seen any of their lines of cards with a dediated hardware chip for RAID-5 (in particular). HighPoint offers both types of controllers (their "A" series, i.e. 1810A for the 4-port version, are the hardware-based ones), and I think 3Ware are all hardware-based. I believe the SiI 3114 boards are a little better than the 3112 (I don't think you can get any worse than the 3112), but I would stick with the above 3 vendors, you will get well supported controllers that will work without much fiddling. I think 3Ware has the best monitoring utilities, but if you're going to not bother with the card itself and use gvinum, then it really doesn't matter. Hope this helps. -Gary
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