state of ide raid

Andrew Thompson andy at fud.org.nz
Fri Jun 13 01:26:23 PDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 20:19, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While shopping for another 3Ware card, I found that this market has gotten
> much larger since I bought my 6500.  So I started looking at the various
> cards while browsing the hardware notes for FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.1.
> 
> So I'm wondering if anyone can provide some insight here.
> 
> -3Ware has a whole new series of cards.  The twe(4) manpage states that
> only 5xxx and 6xxx series cards are supported, but these are very hard to
> come by.  Is the manpage out of date, or are the newer 7xxx and 8xxx
> series cards now supported as well?
> 
> -Adaptec has a cheap raid card, the 1200A.  No mention of it in the
> hardware notes.  Is it possibly supported by the asr driver?
> 

This one uses the ar driver. Im using one, works fine and I havnt had
any problems so far.


Andy






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