Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

[Vinod Kashyap]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Charles 
> Sprickman
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:06 PM
> To: stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID 
> controllers:
> 
> http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port)
> http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=
no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR-2410SA&cat=%> 2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fSerial+ATA+RAID
> 
> I'd love to hear from 5.x users with recent 8000-series 
> controllers -- I'm
> really leaning towards 5.x for this project as the release schedule
> finally matches my build schedule.  Both cards look good on 
> paper, and the
> pricing is similar. I'm mainly concerned about stability in real-world
> use.
> 
> I've seen a number of recent positive comments from those 
> using the 3Ware
> under 4.x, but as someone with an older Escalade (sorry dmesg doesn't
> report the model number), I'm a bit leery.  Going to 4.10 
> caused the thing
> to lock up under heavy disk load, apparently the 
> vendor-provided driver is
> worse than the old driver Mike Smith put together.
> 

Use the driver (version 1.40.01.002) under RELENG_4_10 or RELENG_4.
The driver (version 1.40.01.001) under RELENG_4_10_0_RELEASE has a
known problem with 6xxx controllers.


> I used the "Ask 3ware" link on their site to see what the 
> party line was
> on FreeBSD and this is what I got back:
> 
> ======
> Charles, our support of FreeBSD is just as good as Windows and Linux
> (which is great!). We have embedded support in the main kernel and an
> open source driver that customers can compile to whichever kernel they
> are using if needed. There is a precompiled driver for both 
> 4.X and 5.X
> versions on our website. We also have both an HTML based management
> utility and CLI available. Yahoo is actually one of our customers and
> helped promote the support for FreeBSD by 3ware. If you have any other
> questions please let me know. Regards,
> 
> http://www.3ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp
> 
> David Graas
> 3ware Corporate Sales Manager
> ======
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
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