From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 15:04:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321DD16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:04:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.wep.tudelft.nl (karres.wep.tudelft.nl [130.161.83.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D23443D1D for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rogier@virgiel.nl) Received: (qmail 3488 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2004 23:04:49 -0000 Received: from valhalla.iverdahl.local (HELO valhalla) (192.168.100.24) by mail.iverdahl.local with SMTP; 4 Jan 2004 23:04:49 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20040105000444.0123f9c0@virgiel.xs4all.nl> Organisation: Iverdahl.net X-Security: 512bit CAST Cypher (SSH reroute) X-Mailer: Rapier v2.5 (BSD/OS v4.2) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:04:44 +0100 To: FreeBSD-hardware list From: Rogier Krieger In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.20040104200916.011e4c00@virgiel.xs4all.nl> <3.0.5.32.20040104200916.011e4c00@virgiel.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" cc: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:04:52 -0000 Previous correspondence from Mike Tancsa (14:53 4-1-2004 -0500): >I picked up a couple of 3WARE 8006-2s the other week from >www.hypermicro.com for $129 USD each which is not much more than the >Adaptec or Promise cards. Browsing through the 3ware catalogue, I see that the card is made for 64 bit PCI slots. Do you know whether it works in a regular 32 bit PCI slot? Otherwise, I would have to buy a Xeon board, which are rather expensive (IIRC). For US$ 129, the cards are definitely a bargain (if they work on a 32bit slot) >3ware is now officially supporting the card (www.3ware.com). >[...] I highly recommend the cards. I have had similar performance in a NetBSD machine. I believe the NetBSD driver is a port from the FreeBSD one. Performance of the cards (an Escalade 7000, in my case) is splendid. The card is somewhat sensitive to the use of proper cables. I had (minor) problems with arrays until I installed identical 3ware IDE flatcables. From that point on, everything was fine. Thanks for the fast reply, Rogier Krieger