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=English+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
> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Charles > Sprickman > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:06 PM > To: stable@freebsd.org > 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?sessno&language=English+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. >Use the driver (version 1.40.01.002) under RELENG_4_10 or RELENG_4. The driver (version 1.40.01.001) under RELENG_4_10_0_RELEASE has a known problem with 6xxx controllers.> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
I have both of them and will say this much 3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec, Adaptec will not work with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work flawlessly. -- Steve Rieger -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:06 PM To: stable@freebsd.org 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"