On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steve wrote: > 3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec, > Adaptec will not work with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work > flawlessly.
Are you running 4.x or 5.x? Thanks, Charles > > -- > Steve Rieger > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) > > Hi, > > I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: > > http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port) > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=En > glish+US&prodkey=AAR-2410SA&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fSerial+ATA+RAID > > I'd love to hear from 5.x users with recent 8000-series controllers -- I'm > really leaning towards 5.x for this project as the release schedule finally > matches my build schedule. Both cards look good on paper, and the pricing > is similar. I'm mainly concerned about stability in real-world use. > > I've seen a number of recent positive comments from those using the 3Ware > under 4.x, but as someone with an older Escalade (sorry dmesg doesn't report > the model number), I'm a bit leery. Going to 4.10 caused the thing to lock > up under heavy disk load, apparently the vendor-provided driver is worse > than the old driver Mike Smith put together. > > I used the "Ask 3ware" link on their site to see what the party line was on > FreeBSD and this is what I got back: > > ====== > Charles, our support of FreeBSD is just as good as Windows and Linux (which > is great!). We have embedded support in the main kernel and an open source > driver that customers can compile to whichever kernel they are using if > needed. There is a precompiled driver for both 4.X and 5.X versions on our > website. We also have both an HTML based management utility and CLI > available. Yahoo is actually one of our customers and helped promote the > support for FreeBSD by 3ware. If you have any other questions please let me > know. Regards, > > http://www.3ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp > > David Graas > 3ware Corporate Sales Manager > ====== > > Thanks, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
