I am sure you misunderstood me. LSI RAID and SCSI/SAS cards are great. The best in the industry. In fact I run virtually all my machines on some variation of those cards. I even revamped ami(4) last christmas. At the same time I added bio(4) support for mpi(4) cards.
I can't comment on ARC but it was written by dlg so the driver is going to be as good as it gets. Zero Channel Raid is marketing drivel. The zero stands for usefulness. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:37:48AM -0400, Chris Dukes wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:01:57PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > ZCR is marketing fluff. It ads nothing. > > The same could be said for most LSI megaRAID products. > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current > seems to be an exception, but I doubt it's the card Jeff is describing. > > A skim through http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html > in the RAID and Cache Controllers section gives me the > impression that the only controllers worth spending > money on are the mfi ones and the arc ones. > > Anything else is best run in JBOD mode and managed through > raidframe/softraid. > > -- > Chris Dukes
