Recommended supported SATA Cards?

Thu Jul 1 21:37:42 UTC 2010

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Rob wrote:

> On 06/30/2010 04:45 PM, Diego Arias wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rob<lists at midsummerdream.org>  wrote:
> >
> >> I've seen the SYBA SY-PEX40008, but would prefer to have a PCI-e 4x
> >> connector for the bandwidth and avoid a port multiplier if possible. Since
> >> this will be in a ZFS pool, I'd prefer not to have 1 bad port take out more
> >> than 1 disk. :)  I have seen the Sil3124 chipset mentioned before in my
> >> searches and wasn't sure of its level of support either so it's nice to know
> >> that chipset is well supported.  Does the siis driver support offlining and
> >> swapping hard disks without rebooting?
> >>
> >>
> >> The Adaptec 1430SA seems to use a Marvell chipset according to some
> >> searching of the freebsd archives:
> >> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-10/0389.html
> >> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2005-11/0441.html
> >> http://old.nabble.com/Adaptec-1405-on-FreeBSD-td26337538.html
> >>
> >> But Adaptec's own site/documentation doesn't want to confirm it for me.
> >>   The best I've come up with is:
> >>
> >> http://ask.adaptec.com/scripts/adaptec_tic.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=12177&p_created=1098385883&p_sid=1tiW_K3k&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=438&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQ6MSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjE5LDIxOSZwX3Byb2RzPTQ1JnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0xLjQ1JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=&p_topview=1
> >>
> >> I've found a commit that mentions support for the 1430SA:
> >>
> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-stable-8/2009-November/000565.html
> >>
> >> But I'm not sure what the state of the support is or how stable it is with
> >> that driver (looks to be ata?)
> >>
> >> If the 1430SA uses the Marvell chipset (as it appears to), then I guess the
> >> question comes down to the level of support for the Marvell 88SX6541 and
> >> 88SX7042 chipsets.
> >>
> >> Anyone know the current state of functionality for the above Marvell
> >> chipsets?
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >>
> >> On 06/30/2010 09:07 AM, Steve Polyack wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 06/29/10 16:58, Rob wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I've been trying to find a PCI-e SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for
> >>>> a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD
> >>>> 8.0 will support them. Ideally I'd like to find one that is not a HW
> >>>> Raid controller, as I don't need that functionality since I place to
> >>>> use ZFS and the HW Raid on the card just gets in the way. I know that
> >>>> a HighPoint RocketRAID 23x0 (2310, 2320) will work with the htprr
> >>>> driver, but those are HW RAID cards.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've found 'Adaptec 2241000-R 1430SA' and 'Rosewill RC-218' cards, and
> >>>> those are the ones I'm having a hard time telling if FreeBSD supports.
> >>>> Searching of the e-mail archives has given me mixed results and
> >>>> nothing definitive to say that they work.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm not sure what chipset the Adaptec 2241000-R 1430SA uses, but the
> >>>> Rosewill uses the Marvell 88SX7042 chipset. I'd prefer to use Adaptec
> >>>> if possible as in the past they produced good SCSI boards and used to
> >>>> be well supported (in Linux anyway), but I'll use the Rosewill if it's
> >>>> well supported in FreeBSD. It's also possible Adaptec has taken a hit
> >>>> in support/quality since I last used one of their boards. :)
> >>>>
> >>>>   I think the Marvell SATA chipset work is still a work-in-progress. It
> >>> may still be supported by the ata(4) driver, but that driver typically
> >>> does not support any SATA-specific features, such as NCQ.
> >>>
> >>>   Does anyone know if the above boards are supported in FreeBSD? Anyone
> >>>> have any recommendations for PCI-e 4x SATA controllers with a minimum
> >>>> of 4 internal connectors?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> We use a handful of the SYBA SY-PEX40008 cards
> >>> (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124027) to
> >>> manage a handful of drives with ZFS. The cards have some RAID features,
> >>> but you can simply plug disks in and use them without involving the RAID
> >>> layer. If your motherboard supports it, you can even disable the Option
> >>> ROM from showing up on boot.
> >>>
> >>> Overall, the performance has been pretty good. The siis(4) driver has
> >>> full support for the Sil3124 chipset that these use and supports all of
> >>> the bells&  whistles like NCQ and FIS-based switching for port
> >>> multipliers. They have also been very stable. The only gripe for me is
> >>> that it's only 1x PCI-E, instead of 4x, so you won't get full
> >>> performance out of it once you have 4 fast drives attached.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Rob
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> >
> > Actually 3ware seems to have very good FreeBSD support is that beyond your
> > budget?
> >
> 
> 3ware as in LSI?  I did a google search for 3ware and found a PCI card, 
> but the link to their PCI-E stuff sent me to a different LSI website. 
> Their website is a about as useful when it comes to technical 
> documentation as Adaptec's, and all their cards are RAID level cards. 
> The LSI cards I see are about as expensive as the RocketRAID cards and 
> look to be similar in functionality.  How well supported are the LSI 
> 'Host Bug Adpaters' (LSI website's name)?  Are they the same as the 
> 3ware cards you mentioned before (by looking, I'm guessing no).

Personally, if this is for a server I would still use a higher level
RAID card even it will be used only in JBOD. Personally, I love
3ware. Their support is awesome, their drivers are decent and their
web based remote management interface is really nice. I believe some
cards eeek them out in raw perfomance, but as a whole package
they're pretty nice and they seem to get OSS, drivers and support.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116042

Henrik
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