Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

[Lukas Razik]

Hello!

Jeremy Chadwick schrieb:
>>I know this controller (as I wrote you) for some days now. Here in  
>>Germany I've only seen one Online-Shop where this controller is listed.
>>If the HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 (100EUR =~ 150USD) isn't as good as I  
>>hope, then I will test the Areca ARC-1200 (140EUR =~ 210USD).
> 
> 
> I've stayed away from HighPoint since the release of their HPT366 and
> HPT370/372 chips, which were horrible.  That said, *please* let me
> know how their RocketRAID products perform and behave under FreeBSD.
> I'm interested to know if they've learned from past mistakes.

lol, same here... :-) I have a HPT370 on my last motherboard and it 
didn't work with linux-2.4.X and SMP enabled - although it was 
"supported". Under FreeBSD it worked luckily good for me and this was 
one of the reasons for me to use FreeBSD instead of Linux on my dual CPU 
system since 2001. Now I'm a _big_ FreeBSD fan and I like the job of you 
guys! BTW: That's also the reason for my current (unsolved) decision to 
buy a GTX260 (because of nVIDIA's FreeBSD-driver) or to take ATI's 
cheaper and tendentially better Radeon HD4870 withoud FreeBSD-drivers. 
;-) Hmmm...

In linux-2.6.X these HPT370 chips where no longer supported.
In 2006 I bought the Promise FastTrak 4310 (also Fake-RAID) for my new 
SATA-HDs and had again only problems under Linux and FreeBSD.
http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-hardware&id=2320838

My solution was the 3ware 8006-2LP and I want never again any Fake-RAID 
card. But the 3ware and Areca controllers aren't cheap and because of 
that I want to test HPT's new HW-RAID card. I will buy it at the 
beginning of September and then I'll test and benchmark it. I'm also 
_very_ interested because it would be a cheaper solution and I'll inform 
you about my experiences ASAP. :-)


>>But you wrote "It lacks an IOP [...]". Do you mean that it will have no  
>>Intel IOP because they only write it has a "500MHz Storage processor"  
>>and therefore it will be not as fast as the other controllers from Areca?
> 
> 
> Correct.  I'm lead to believe that the ambiguous "500Mhz Storage
> processor" item refers to a non-Intel processor of some sort.
> 

O.K. I see. That's a good hint!

Regards,
Lukas