From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 21 20:25:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0134E106566B for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:25:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jose.amengual@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com (mail-wg0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4C38FC14 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so1331004wgb.1 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:25:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=dEFUJ8dJD7aHE2wFfOoCsjQ0vc46MVmjBViW4FJKjUU=; b=m0bERbkdX5H6xDTFN5jSgTGIoGExiMWsjP7+OfBCNCa+772XVb2pDxX5hJQXV4yUXy qdRkVuKGx/zEY0zcAP3+waoFBHrW9OhsrGTNYuQffiaYDVqFxHWSifMRTqk+qVZVX5iC YEaRUf2mpENhNfG5w11arKcDmU+Xh8DNAEShc6ZUyKMegXWOTdGIrsIkUaleue7oQqzC UeN6rdrHLag1SoSmEBXvmDICbTY/cwiYgnqlQpkp5pGRyJ9vAnKItV1djGEBmU9zXE59 rz73hz8+y4h0XNaSqOO2q2PkUPBpt3DfZS9oBxoaHCLXfudoV2FKPHs/bRe8T6k1c8ue cXeA== Received: by 10.216.52.18 with SMTP id d18mr3462205wec.173.1348259142362; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:25:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.212.73 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:25:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pepe (Jose) Amengual" Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:25:22 -0700 Message-ID: To: freebsd-hardware Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Which one has better support for FreeBSD , LSI or Areca ? with multiport support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:25:50 -0000 Hi Guys. I have a super micro server with this controller : http://www.addonics.com/products/adsa3gpx8-4e.php Connected to and Addonics storage rack via 4 eSata ports and port multipliers to 10 disks using ZFS. It has been working fine but lately I have been experience some issues with channel timeout and disk just disappearing from the pool. I already posted another thread about that but looks like no one has clue about what the errors means so I decided to swap controllers with a spare one and same issue. So now I have decided to buy a real controller, Areca or LSI for the server but I need one that is port multiplier compatible and with external esata connectors. I just one a very good controller ( not super expensive) that has good drivers for freebsd and that can give me reliable tools to diagnose hardrive failures and diagnostics. I have the possibility to move to iSCSI too using an addonics module for that so I could move to a different setup but I don't know is I will have any benefit on I/O speed doing that or not. If someone can give me some advice I will really appreciate. Thanks.