From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 17:49:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055CD16A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:49:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A241D43D4C for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:49:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1FDmVA-000D0d-LH; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:49:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200602271032.38550.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> References: <200602241216.00547.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> <200602271032.38550.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:49:39 -0700 To: Ashley Moran X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 vs Adeptec 2820 for RAID 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:49:43 -0000 On Feb 27, 2006, at 3:32 AM, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:53, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> I would wonder about Adaptec support. Areca is officially supporting >> FreeBSD (and Solaris 10 and others). > > The Adaptec website claims that the 2820 is compatible with FreeBSD > 5.4 but > doesn't mention 6. I noticed that about Areca I wonder which driver. If it is the aac driver then it is not official adaptec support and the tools themselves don't work -- you have to use the linux tools. > >>> I have a 12 port PCI-X version of the Areca but not yet installed. >> My correspondence with Areca before I got it was very good. They >> were quite responsive. >> >> I have been using a lot of adaptec boards over the last 5 years >> (2100S x 2, 2200S, 2410SA x a few, 2400A in one machine). They work >> fine but Adaptec provides no support for FreeBSD and the released >> utilities may or may not work so well as FreeBSD matures but the >> utilities stay at old versions... > > The Areca utilities seem quite up to date - Dec 05. Only i386 > binaries but I > assume they will control the card just find running on an amd64 > machine. > Will you let me know how you find them? It'd be reassuring to know > the tools > are good. When I get around to installing the card :-) I bought the card for business reasons at the end of the year but the machine it is to be used in has not been purchased yet. Supposed to be later this year. Chad > > Cheers > Ashley > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net