From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 16:33:40 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 196B216A422 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:33:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpkirchner@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B6843D60 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpkirchner@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so44568uge for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:33:27 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AETMXddFE/ZG7oMVoGlDm4zVQhnsKEFsUK02hzCE1BwgomGHhrDRAGVYa27bzn/gidAP77aKo5tSwalGBmibAw/kmqDSBkiRyfMVZgLs5NQuxP21/0SDNsPuzdw0lDoFYhwCkzEZYZOmWVx+IqatKIv70h5HKGIwRslSqz/ITYY= Received: by 10.49.56.5 with SMTP id i5mr73704nfk; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:33:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.219.10 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:33:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <35c231bf0601130833r4c02ee5ua6a28a0e9bc42e2e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:33:26 -0800 From: David Kirchner Sender: dpkirchner@gmail.com To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060113095501.07513e48@64.7.153.2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060111200436.C30165@p-i-n.com> <43C55962.5020205@rogers.com> <20060112144459.D30165@p-i-n.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20060113095501.07513e48@64.7.153.2> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Raphael H. Becker" Subject: Re: [6.0-RELEASE] Trouble with Intel-SATA-RAID Controller 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: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:33:40 -0000 On 1/13/06, Mike Tancsa wrote: > The Areca is higher in price as they only come in 4 ports and > above. Go with the 3ware 8006 2 port. If you are looking for > stability and reliability under FreeBSD, its the way to go. I have > recovered from many failed disks with the 3ware under FreeBSD, Linux > and Windows and it works and works well. Seconded (or n'd). We have dozens of 3ware cards in service and they've all been great. From 8006 all the way to 9500S. Other than the occasional problem with >2TB on FreeBSD the cards and the drivers themselves appear absolutely solid. The best part is 3ware provides the drivers directly to the project, and provides a CLI utility for interacting with the card, which works very well for initiating rebuilds or creating arrays, whatever you need (except perhaps firmware updates. But 3ware provides bootable floppies for that.)