At 01:30 PM 11/12/00 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>I dont have any direct experience with the controllers listed below on
>FreeBSD, however I did try the Fasttrak a year or so ago on NT and was
>less than impressed with it under even a medium load. The IDE RAID card I
>have had good experience with is the one from 3ware. (www.3ware.com). I
>have been using it in RAID 0 and RAID 1 on a number of servers with very
>good results and reliability, including booting from it (e.g)
Can second the 3Ware cards, but only have had a few days to play with
them. Not sure exactly when install support came in, but with RC1 has it
(this after I did it the hard way).
The 2 port 6200 runs around $130, 4 port 6400 about $230, and 8 port 6800
around $400.
>Read write performance is very nice. Have a look through the archives
>where I have posted some numbers in the past. Also, there will soon be
>native disk management utilities direct from 3ware.
Yea!
One thing overlooked was a comment line in MAKEDEV:
--- MAKEDEV.orig Thu Nov 9 21:28:29 2000
+++ MAKEDEV Sat Nov 11 21:57:18 2000
@@ -49,4 +49,5 @@
# mlxd* Mylex DAC960 RAID disk volumes
# scd* Sony CD-ROM disks
+# twe* 3Ware Escalade 3W-5x00/3W-6x00 ATA RAID controllers
# vn* vnode disks
# wd* "Winchester" disk drives (ST506,IDE,ESDI,RLL,...)
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