From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Jul 31 12:47:36 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 D6D2116A4CE
	for <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>;
	Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:47:36 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from smtp.internal.alivewww.com (gp1.alivewww.com [217.158.94.60])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FE443D70
	for <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>;
	Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:47:36 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from enquiries@alivewww.com)
Received: from host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com ([83.146.2.180])
	by smtp.internal.alivewww.com with asmtp (Exim 4.34)
	id 1BqtGw-000EuR-N6; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:47:34 +0100
From: Alasdair Lumsden <enquiries@alivewww.com>
To: Spam This <spammy@qwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <OHEHJJKFOLMBHMAKHDOAKEDBCAAA.spammy@qwest.net>
References: <OHEHJJKFOLMBHMAKHDOAKEDBCAAA.spammy@qwest.net>
Content-Type: text/plain
Message-Id: <1091278053.19294.1.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk 
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:47:33 +0100
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: IDE Raid controllers
X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware
	<freebsd-hardware.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware>,
	<mailto:freebsd-hardware-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-hardware-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware>,
	<mailto:freebsd-hardware-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:47:36 -0000

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 20:46, Spam This wrote:
> Anyone know a good IDE Raid controller that works under a SMP FreeBSD
> system?
> 
> I'm looking for something that can do RAID 5, something stable and is
> hardware based (I heard some controllers just use the main CPU to do raid
> instead of having a built on chip).
> 
> Anyone use 3ware cards under FreeBSD?

I'd highly recommend the 3Ware 9000 Series. These are fully supported in
FreeBSD, and work fine with SMP.

Also the 3dm2 monitoring software is great.