Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:55:02 +1000 From: Danny Carroll <fbsd@dannysplace.net> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: PCI-X SATA Card + Server Recommendation Message-ID: <4906EF86.7050702@dannysplace.net> In-Reply-To: <20081026125017.GA88016@icarus.home.lan> References: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810260112010.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20081026125017.GA88016@icarus.home.lan>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/series_2000.htm > HighPoint RocketRAID 2210 (hptrr(4) driver; be sure to read NOTES) > HighPoint RocketRAID 2220 (hptrr(4) driver; be sure to read NOTES) > HighPoint RocketRAID 2224 (hptrr(4) driver; be sure to read NOTES) > HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 (hptrr(4) driver; be sure to read NOTES) Can you (or someone else) please tell me a little more about this? Do the drives (in JBOD mode) present themselves as part of the ATA bus or SCSI bus? Do you know if NCQ and SATA-II support is in there? Can you do Smart queries to the drives? > http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm > Areca ARC-1110 (arcmsr(4) driver) > Areca ARC-1120 (arcmsr(4) driver) > Areca ARC-1130 (arcmsr(4) driver) > Areca ARC-1160 (arcmsr(4) driver) > Areca ARC-1130ML (arcmsr(4) driver) > Areca ARC-1160ML (arcmsr(4) driver) > > The FreeBSD community members who have Areca cards have been thrilled > with them, and *do* use the native RAID features reliably. Personally I am torn right now between an Adapted 31205, a 3ware 9650SE-12ML and an Areca 1230. I'm going for ZFS so I really want a fast SATA card with lots of ports (8-12) and no raid functionality. There is not much out there and it's all expensive. > There's a bunch of Supermicro systems which meet your needs. The first > four are very new, and use the Intel X48 chipset. I don't know of any > FreeBSD people using the X7SBU board, but I'm sure there are some. > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/ > Supermicro SuperServer 5015B-URB (~US$975) > Supermicro SuperServer 5015B-NTRB (~US$975) > Supermicro SuperServer 5015B-UB (~US$785) > Supermicro SuperServer 5015B-NTB (~US$785) > Supermicro SuperServer 5015B-MTB (~US$655) > > bsdhwmon(8) supports the 5015B-MTB (X7SBi), but doesn't support the > others (X7SBU). If someone out there has an X7SBU, please get in > touch with me so I can add support for it! I have an X7SBE, so I'm, keen to try out bsdhwmon. Installing right now... Out of curiosity (and way OT)I get a lot of ACPI messages on my supermicro board: Oct 22 11:50:29 nas kernel: ACPI Error (psargs-0459): [\_SB_.PCI0.PSMS] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND Oct 22 11:50:29 nas kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.SIO_.MSE0._STA] (Node 0xffffff00013a6260), AE_NOT_FOUND If you use supermicro boards a lot then perhaps you have seen these? -D
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