3ware or other ATA RAID?

[Bryan Vyhmeister]

I just started running a 3ware 7000 2 channel ATA RAID card that is 
working fine. Obviously, this would not work in your situation though. 
I have used the Adaptec 2400A ATA RAID card with good results. It is a 
4 channel card though. I have only used the 2400A doing RAID 1. RAID 5 
or other RAID levels may not work as well. I don't know.

Bryan

On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 10:46 PM, Ralph Forsythe wrote:

> I know FreeBSD support for the 3ware controllers is sketchy, I've read 
> the archives.  My original plan was to run FreeBSD with a 3ware 7500-8 
> controller and a stack of 250gb drives (mmm, storage!).  So my 
> alternative is to run Linux, or find another controller that works 
> with BSD.
>
> Any recommendations?  I need it to work; the marginal "it might 
> rebuild your array" types of things I'm hearing with BSD is scaring 
> me, and I don't like wondering if my 2TB array will fix itself without 
> major work.  If BSD supports a similar ATA RAID controller I'm 
> definitely interested in hearing about it (though I'd like BSD to just 
> update the driver they have now, so the one I want will work!), 
> otherwise I may have to revert to Linux for my database server, at 
> least until SCO sues me for running it. *laugh* (See slashdot if you 
> have no clue about what I just said re SCO)
>
> Cheers,
> - Ralph