Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

[Charles Sprickman]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steve wrote:

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

Are you running 4.x or 5.x?

Thanks,

Charles

>
> --
> 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:
>
> ======
> 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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