From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 09:43:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6C816A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:43:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from gate.ka.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F310243D1F for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:43:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by gate.ka.punkt.de with ESMTP id j5I9cDkQ011786 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5I9hcuL019235; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:43:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j5I9hcOF019234; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:43:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" Message-Id: <200506180943.j5I9hcOF019234@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20050617213910.M90456@ganymede.hub.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:43:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is considered "the best supported" RAID controller for 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:43:41 -0000 Hello! > The subject says it all ... I'm looking a new server, and right now have > built it around the SRCZCRX PCI-X 128MB, since I've had good luck with the > Intel RAID controllers with 4.x, and I *really* like the storcon CLI > utility ... but, with the move to 5.x, I'm wondering if there is something > else I should be looking at, or is this still a good card to go with? IMHO it's the entire product line of ICP Vortex, now owned by Adaptec. These cards really rock. Battery backed up cache, RAID 1+0, driver maintained my company's engineers, yet in the stock FreeBSD kernel, curses based management utility to repair arrays without reboot, unattended rebuild if you exchange a broken disk with a brand new one, same interface to the host for _all_ products including SATA, ... Just works. Period. We use them for typo3.org, wetteronline.de uses them. I'm in no way affiliated with them, I just like the products. A lot ;-) HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de