From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 10 22:22:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B8037B409 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7B5M7I00924; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:22:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: nicole@unixgirl.com (Hodge Podge) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware FreeBSD support being trashed by rackable systems? Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:22:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20010808132202.29158.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> 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-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 9 Aug 2001 15:52:09 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > > > Greetings all > My boss just called rackable systems abt their 3U storage array which = uses >the 3ware IDE Raid card. He was told that the OS to install on the = system >would be Linux by the sales person becouse for the 3ware RAID card "the >linux drivers are the best and the FreeBSD driver is terrible" > > Is this true? =20 Not in my experience. I use the 3ware cards on FreeBSD, Linux, NT4 and Win2K. In terms of my satisfaction, its FreeBSD, Linux a close second, win2k and NT4 a distant 3 and 4. I have deployed dozens of FreeBSD boxes in RAID0, 1 and 10 and have had super reliability. I have 4 LINUX boxes running with the card as well, and generally I am happy with it as well. Performance on the *SAME* hardware was better under FreeBSD. On Win2k it seems 80% of the time, a simple reboot makes the controller think the drives are degraded and its time to rebuild etc... ---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-hardware" in the body of the message