make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

[Mike Tancsa]

At 10:20 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
>Those cards all have (and appear to require) PCI-64 (double-connector) bus
>plug-ins.  For those of us with single PCI bus slots (e.g. those of us who
>don't have Opterons), that simply won't work unless I'm missing something.

I have used the 3ware cards (both 32bit and 64) in plain jane 32bit PCI 
slots for years.  Also the 2 port I think is just 32bit still.

As Robert said, the 3ware people have been very supportive and have created 
very solid drivers over the years.  The management tools are the best.

         ---Mike


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>On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > >At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > >
> > >>Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to
> > >>work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those
> > >>whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500?
> > >
> > >3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series) that works very
> > >well. Its about $110 USD from various online sources.  You can use it as
> > >RAID1 or 2 independent disks.  They work very well and are well tested
> > >in FreeBSD.
> >
> > One of the things that makes 3ware a particularly encouraging choice is
> > that 3ware helps maintain their driver on FreeBSD, as well as putting it
> > through their own test environment with their hardware.  3ware's driver
> > developer also has a FreeBSD commit bit so that he can maintain it
> > directly.  The fact that vendors like 3ware and others (Intel, etc) get
> > directly involved in testing and maintaining their drivers on FreeBSD is
> > one of the things that gets them on my recommendation list for hardware
> > purchases.
> >
> > Robert N M Watson
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