SATA RAID Support

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:34:23PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 01:19 PM 24/02/2005, Dustin Wilhoit wrote:
> >Trying using your browsers FIND command and search for SATA,  There are 
> >several SATA Raid controllers supported by FreeBSD.
> >
> >Controllers supported by the aac(4) driver include:
> >        Dell CERC SATA RAID 2
> >The twa(4) driver supports the following PATA/SATA RAID controllers:
> >        AMCC's 3ware 9500S-4LP
> >        AMCC's 3ware 9500S-8
> >        AMCC's 3ware 9500S-8MI
> >        AMCC's 3ware 9500S-12
> >        AMCC's 3ware 9500S-12MI
> 
> As well as the 3ware twe(4) driver supports the 8xxx series SATA RAID 
> controllers.  I have a number of these and they work REALLY well in 
> RELENG_4 and RELENG_5.  There are also management / monitoring tools for 
> both the twa and twe based cards that do pretty well everything you would 
> expect.

And the iir driver for the ICP Vortex controllers.

We had problems here with 3ware + 72GB Raptors (10 krpm), so we moved to 
ICP Vortex and are very happy with them. Fast and reliable, also 
management software available, even more advanced, you have access to 
cache statistics and io statistics of single devices even.

- Oliver

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