From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 24 16:24:39 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 A352C16A4E0 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:24:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57A143D70 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:24:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so520829wxd for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:24:29 -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=iV9PRUUVA3pbaOjTzr/5vJW6CdGIFVxY2IRsemk4lo75IuYca5MVX9+7+nbdjntyFhNwTiUDBzi4MUa2v28z55w8hd4q2/SSRsyQFyj5EiLYmU0enteYbVWbNWeH7a8F/HP5SSLzVUrNjT0tlscws8VwH0qcH0+7gf3CueHvH4Q= Received: by 10.70.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr2826304wxz; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:22:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:22:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:22:50 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <200608241726.21473.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 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> <200608241726.21473.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-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: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:24:39 -0000 On 8/24/06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thursday 24 August 2006 01:16, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > 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. > > I believe Promise *do* support FreeBSD quite a bit. > Maybe as an after thought. I also don't see any link on their site for FreeBSD support, lets check google: http://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Awww.promise.com+FreeBSD http://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Ahighpoint-tech.com+FreeBSD So 7 Links Vs. 90 Links. Also if you click on that first link google gives you, about the up coming RAID6 SuperTrak EX4350 and EX12350 with support for FreeBSD etc.. Those card are clones of Areca's ARC-1210 and ARC-1230 cards... Striped down clones at that, they only have a 500MHz XScale IOP333... Areca is already moving from the 600MHz XScale IOP333 to the 800MHz XScale IOP341 with DDR2-533 support... Hell I bet they're just going to patch arcmsr(4) and call it there own. Areca's Erich Chen put a lot of work into arcmsr(4). There wouldn't be an arcmsr(4) in FreeBSD if it wasn't for Areca commitment to support FreeBSD. Now we have Promise trying to claim they support FreeBSD by patching a few lines of code from another company. Butch of BS is what that is. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/