SCSI RAID card recommendation (1/2 height PCI-X U320 SCSI dual channel)

[Chuck Swiger]

Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> There's an interesting thread about the AMR RAID controller used in  
>> the newer 18x0/28x0 Dells with the PERC/4 controller, and I know of  
>> enough people using them that such improvements (by Doug Ambrisko?)  
>> will be welcomed.
> 
> Thanks for your note.  Turns out I have more than one Dell system with 
> aac controllers in them :-)

They seem to be OK, although I like the AMR's a little better.  I had to update 
the RAID BIOS on the PE 2650 before auto-rebuild of a broken mirror would work 
right using the aac controller.

(It's either rackrounted Dells or HP 370/380 Proliants for me, depending upon 
the specific client in question.)

> One happens to be a PE 1750 with the PERC 3/Di in it running RAID1.   It 
> is lightly loaded but is sufficient for that server's needs, but  is 
> running FreeBSD 4.11 on it.
> 
> Is there a way to backport this diskinfo utility to 4.x or 5.x?   Looks 
> most useful!  On my 6.0 box with a PERC 3/Si card (aac driver  too) it 
> is showing seek times slower than yours but transfer rates  faster.

diskinfo runs on 5.x, at least.  I'm not sure about 4.x; I think some of the 
underlying infrastructure which smarttools also depends upon wasn't available 
until 5.x...

-- 
-Chuck