Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64 - and Promise RAID controllers???

[Gerhard Schmidt]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 02:26:34PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Last Friday I ranted:
> 
> >In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my
> >client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a
> >supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win situation
> >for both my client and myself. However, somehow I've not yet been able
> >to drive that argument home, so who knows...:/
> 
> Well, eureka, I did it! :)
> That is... I managed to convince the client to go hardware RAID. ;)
> 
> They have a preference for the following controller: Promise FAST Trak 
> S150TX4
> 
> But..................................
> 
> As far as I gather from the supported hardware list (fbsd 5.3, amd-64) 
> at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-amd64.html#DISK
> 
> It looks like this controller is not supported. :(
> 
> To further compound matters, checking the docs on the controller 
> suggests that, again, this is basically a software RAID solution (no 
> CPU, no on-board memory, and a 66MHz PCI 2.2 32-bit interface): nice to 
> complement their otherwise blazingly fast 64-bit AMD machine, duh! :(((
> 
> Oh well, again I made a very strong suggestion to buy the Adaptec 2200s 
> U320 SCSI RAID controller, but we'll see... :)
> 
> Meanwhile, does anyone know of a good hardware SATA RAID controller 
> capable of supporting RAID 10, and which is properly supported by 
> FreeBSD 5.3 (amd64)? Any experiences? Any do's and dont's?

Hi, 

I'am runnig some 3ware Storage Controllers on 5.2.1 and 
5.3 on i386 Hardware. They work well. 

I use a 3ware 3W-8500-8 disk controller with 4 disks in Raid 5 Mode 
and some 3ware 3W-7006-2 disk controller with 2 disks in Raid 1 Mode. 

So far no problems with them. They react well on HotSwaps of defectiv 
disks (had one diskfailure allready). 

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