Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

[Steve]

I have both of them and will say this much

3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec, 
Adaptec will not work with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work
flawlessly. 


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Steve Rieger 
-----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 9:06 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=En
glish+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.

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:

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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
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Thanks,

Charles
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