Looking for supported 32 or 64bit/66Mhz SATA Hardware RAID 5 Controller on 5.3-STABLE

[Jonathan Feally]

Samuel Clements wrote:

> I also use the Intel RAID cards as well as the 3ware cards. Both 
> preform very reliably for me. The newest Intel SATA card (SRCS16) 
> appears to be a re-labelled LSI card and seems to work well using amr:
>
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID> mem 0xf0000000-0xf000ffff irq 16 at device 
> 1.0 on pci3
> amr0: <LSILogic Intel(R) RAID Controller SRCS16> Firmware 713K, BIOS 
> G401, 64MB RAM
> amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd0: 476920MB (976732160 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a
>
>
> whereas the older Intel card uses the iir driver - no more unified 
> driver for the Intel cards! =(  As a general rule of thumb, you want 
> to stay away from the SATA RAID built into the chipsets (like the 
> ICH5R). These are only going to be good for entry level stuff like 
> RAID 0 and 1 anyways. Support for these is in the works, but if you 
> need a good card now, grab an Intel or a 3ware. They both do hardware 
> XOR and are pretty reasonably priced.
>  -Sam
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Picone" <wts666 at iprimus.com.au>
> To: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Looking for supported 32 or 64bit/66Mhz SATA Hardware 
> RAID 5 Controller on 5.3-STABLE
>
>
>> Hey,
>>       I had to research this a few months ago, and i found that intel 
>> sata raid5 cards are the best
>>       compared to the 3ware sata range in the way of stability and 
>> support on freebsd, duno about
>>       Promise, but make sure the card has an XOR processor on it to 
>> take some load of the cpu, all
>>       intel raid cards use the same driver which is handy.
>>
>>       -Mark
>>
>>
>> Vulture wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>> I've seen some posts on this before with no results. The hardware 
>>> list doesn't
>>> seem to show much on ata type controllers anymore. Hopefully 
>>> somebody can point
>>> me in the direction of a good, decently priced controller.
>>>
>>> The Promise FastTrak S150 looks good, but is 5.3-STABLE going to get 
>>> close to
>>> using it properly? I would love to get one of the 15 drive external 
>>> promise
>>> SATA RAID to U320 enclosures - but the $15K price tag is a little much.
>>>
>>> I would use vinum, but SATA driver instability and PCI Bus 
>>> bottlenecks are
>>> keeping my Maxtor 300GB 16MB 7200's from getting close to their 
>>> potential.
>>>
>>> Thanks -Jon
>>>
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Thanks for the info guys. I'm gald to see that this mailing list is 
getting some action again!

-Jon