OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Eirik Oeverby wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 00:57 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Eirik Øverby wrote:
>>
>>>> Adaptec AAC-2410SA 4-Port S-ATA RAID Controller
>>>
>>> This one is gonna be tricky on you, I think.
>>
>> Should work fine.  I was using a 2200S, which uses the same aac driver
>> under 5-CURRENT on amd64 a while back before I downgraded to i386
>> version.
>
> Sorry, my mistake.
> That doesn't help my feeling that most Adaptec IDE RAID controllers 
> are,
> in my experience (YMMV, and please excuse my language), utter crap,
> though. Highpoint, 3Ware, and even Promise are lightyears ahead when it
> comes to stability, supportability and performance (mainly due to the
> Adaptecs having a nasty tendency to spew interrupts like mad, making 
> the
> system (interrupt) load go berzerk during heavy disk I/O).
>

This has not been my experience.  I have been running the 2100S (asr) 
on i386 under 4.x for years now and they are rock solid very high 
performing cards in my experience.  My lesser experience with the 2200S 
(aac) also shows it to be high performing and solid, though my boxes 
with 2200S and 2410SA are still in test mode.

I don't work for adaptec and am sometimes even greatly annoyed by them, 
but their cards have served me well.

I must say I am interested in the Highpoint 1820A SATA raid card 
though.  Anyone use that one and is it bootable under i386 or amd64?

Thanks
Chad