At 10:20 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
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.
I have used the 3ware cards (both 32bit and 64) in plain jane 32bit PCI
slots for years. Also the 2 port I think is just 32bit still.
As Robert said, the 3ware people have been very supportive and have created
very solid drivers over the years. The management tools are the best.
---Mike
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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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