Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:26:34 +0100 From: Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64 - and Promise RAID controllers??? Message-ID: <41E2828A.2030802@axis.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050107132423.GA47763@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <41B857A0.2070906@leg.ensieg.inpg.fr> <41DE7DA3.8060206@axis.nl> <20050107132423.GA47763@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Hi, Last Friday I ranted: >In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my >client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a >supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win situation >for both my client and myself. However, somehow I've not yet been able >to drive that argument home, so who knows...:/ Well, eureka, I did it! :) That is... I managed to convince the client to go hardware RAID. ;) They have a preference for the following controller: Promise FAST Trak S150TX4 But.................................. As far as I gather from the supported hardware list (fbsd 5.3, amd-64) at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-amd64.html#DISK It looks like this controller is not supported. :( To further compound matters, checking the docs on the controller suggests that, again, this is basically a software RAID solution (no CPU, no on-board memory, and a 66MHz PCI 2.2 32-bit interface): nice to complement their otherwise blazingly fast 64-bit AMD machine, duh! :((( Oh well, again I made a very strong suggestion to buy the Adaptec 2200s U320 SCSI RAID controller, but we'll see... :) Meanwhile, does anyone know of a good hardware SATA RAID controller capable of supporting RAID 10, and which is properly supported by FreeBSD 5.3 (amd64)? Any experiences? Any do's and dont's? Tnx & cheerz! Olafo
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