Another BIOS RAID or host based RAID question

[Toll, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Franco Bruno Borghesi
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:05 AM
> To: Toll, Eric
> Cc: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Another BIOS RAID or host based RAID question
> 
> Yes, I am using 3 servers with hardware raid:
> 
> a)3ware 7500 with 4 ATA disks (1 spare) WD 160 GB in RAID 5, 
> works great.
> b)Mylex AcceleRAID 160 with 3 SCSI 8 GB Quantum disks, RAID 
> 5, works great.
> c)3ware 9600s with 4 SATA 150 disks (1 spare) WD 160 GB in 
> RAID 5. Many problems, occasional reboots, couldn't get any 
> help from the lists.
> 
> The 3ware 7500 board comes in severall flavours, you could 
> try a two channel model, though the only utility you have is 
> tw_cli, it's console based, no alarms. It's also an ATA controller :(
> 
> Hope this helps.



Yes it does, I just did a quick search of 3ware storage adapters on Insight and
the 8xxx and 9xxx series are available.
They are all 64 Bit PCI, which leads me to the mainboard.  I wanted to get an
Asus or Abit MB with an (single) AMD processor (64 perhaps) with 1Gb of RAM.

What mainboard are your 3ware cards plugged into?

I want to build a new BSD server, with ATA raid or SATA raid, AMD 64 chip (not
using 64bit BSD), MB and nice P/S and case. Can anyone recommend a good shopping
list?



Regards,
Eric