On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:16:47PM -0600, Richard Johnson wrote: | I'm looking to possibly use a SATA RAID card instead of softraid(4) on a | new amd64 PCIx or PCI express machine build. | | I'm tired of rebooting into the bios for other machines with mfi(4). So I | want to build something manageable via bio(4), bioctl(4), and maybe | sensorsd(8). That'll either be softraid, or some kind of supported SATA | RAID card. | | However, most of the card models listed in the man pages for ami(4), | ciss(4), ips(4), and arc(4) are older discontinued SCSI and PCI beasts. | ami(4) also is limited to 2TB logical volumes.
I've had great success with the Areca ARC-1210. http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm -- Ryan Corder || () ASCII ribbon campaign <ryanc at greengrey.org> || /\ against HTML email http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEE37813 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
