From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 8:49:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D033237B407; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 08:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f9EFnCn85658; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:49:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server recommendation for co-location. Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:49:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4kdgst4irf8nrktldei9ca2mbgrmekecai@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:41:30 +0000 (UTC), in = sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >> Ack! I just specified a system with a 3ware card for my lab's file >> server based on storagereviews recommendation. I think I'm going to >> have to ask for a substitution and get the adaptec for 4x40 GB ATA 100= drives > >You should probably just substitute a 6000 series 3ware controller. When I spoke to the sales rep he said they were making them until = December and still supporting them afterwards for the 3yr war. How true that will = be 1yr from now, no one of course knows. But I plan to have a few in stores as replacements should the need arise. Besides, 3yrs from now, I dont expect to be using my hardware the same way as now. > >> Since word on the street is 3ware is out of the controller business, >> is Adaptec the only HW ATA raid game in town (2400A series) for my = setup? >> If so does the Adaptec controller have known problems? > >If someone can kick the relevant details out of Promise, I'm sure that >something could be done with their 6-port controller, but in the = meantime >yes, Adaptec is the only game in town. > >The Adaptec controller is basically a DPT (sorry, Adaptec SCSI RAID) >controller with ATA channels on it. It's not a great device, although >I'd say that it would a least basically work. What driver does it use ? Has anyone tried it ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message