On 1/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not used any of the SATA, but would consider that an option.
I've got a couple of the LSI 300-8X SATA cards. They certainly perform wonderfully and at a good pricepoint. I had run into a problem on SMP AMD64 with ccb timeouts locking up the box, which is doing some heavy NFS and DB. Upgrading the firmware seems to have cleared that up (knock on wood). # grep ami0 /var/run/dmesg.boot ami0 at pci4 dev 14 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID SATA 8x" rev 0x07: apic 4 int 0 (irq 5) LSI 3008 32b ami0: FW 813J, BIOS vH430, 128MB RAM ami0: 1 channels, 0 FC loops, 1 logical drives scsibus0 at ami0: 40 targets scsibus1 at ami0: 16 targets # bioctl -i ami0 Volume Status Size Device ami0 0 Online 899999072256 sd0 RAID10 0 Online 300018565120 0:1.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> 1 Online 300018565120 0:0.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> 2 Online 300018565120 0:3.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> 3 Online 300018565120 0:2.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> 4 Online 300018565120 0:4.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> 5 Online 300018565120 0:5.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> ami0 1 Unused 300018565120 0:6.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> ami0 2 Unused 300018565120 0:7.0 noencl <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC> -- Jon Simola Systems Administrator ABC Communications