RAID Cards

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jun 26, 2005, at 12:21 PM, <nethaniel at box201.com>  
<nethaniel at box201.com> wrote:

> I can say my experience with adaptec 3200s cards has not been the most
> fruitful. It's been 2 weeks now and I cannot even get my system to  
> load past
> the initial bootup options screen. Anything but option 6 fails. The  
> sad
> thing is I have a driver but I need to load some kind of os on the  
> system or
> I cannot load my driver.

The adaptec 3200s is supported out of the box in FreeBSD with the asr  
driver (at least on i386).  You should not need a separate driver.

Is the adaptec at the latest firmware and is your system bios at the  
latest version?  I had a problem with an adaptec 2200s (aac driver)  
with my tuan opteron board that was fixed with a system BIOS upgrade.

Chad

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>> Subject: RAID Cards
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>> I am looking to build a new file server.  I have used
>> Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
>> at Highpoint cards for this machine.  Anybody have any
>> opinions on RAID cards?
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>> - --
>> Bob Bomar
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