From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 13:28:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CA516A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp4.mail.ctc.net (smtp4.mail.ctc.net [166.82.29.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FEB43D46 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wvaughan@steelerubber.com) Received: from steelerubber.com (wvaughan.steelerubber.com [166.82.96.28]) i3RKSdt1026738 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:28:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <408EC2F1.5070300@steelerubber.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:30:41 -0400 From: Walter Vaughan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sig: 00b4ecb5c5a9c3723f417e5e3ea98bd8 Subject: Recommended RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:28:44 -0000 I am looking to build two new servers, and plan on using freeBSD. I've read the last 5 months of this list and while I haven't seen anything to scare me, I'm looking for advice on something that'll work pretty much out of the block with 5.2.1 that has pretty good tools support. I was all fired up about a Zero-channel Adaptec, but after reading it's only 4.* tools supported I not so sure. I liked what I've read about Intel's SATA raid that uses the iir driver, but again I am worried about administrative tools. Thanks -- Walter