make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

[Karl Denninger]

Those cards all have (and appear to require) PCI-64 (double-connector) bus
plug-ins.  For those of us with single PCI bus slots (e.g. those of us who
don't have Opterons), that simply won't work unless I'm missing something.

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On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> >At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >
> >>Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to
> >>work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those
> >>whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500?
> >
> >3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series) that works very 
> >well. Its about $110 USD from various online sources.  You can use it as 
> >RAID1 or 2 independent disks.  They work very well and are well tested 
> >in FreeBSD.
> 
> One of the things that makes 3ware a particularly encouraging choice is 
> that 3ware helps maintain their driver on FreeBSD, as well as putting it 
> through their own test environment with their hardware.  3ware's driver 
> developer also has a FreeBSD commit bit so that he can maintain it 
> directly.  The fact that vendors like 3ware and others (Intel, etc) get 
> directly involved in testing and maintaining their drivers on FreeBSD is 
> one of the things that gets them on my recommendation list for hardware 
> purchases.
> 
> Robert N M Watson
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