Hello, I'm buying a new server and will put 6.3 on it and would like to use SAS; normally I use 3ware SATA. I've been reading a lot including man pages but can't seem to find definitive information on SAS cards that are well-supported and work well. I've found reports that cards listed in man pages don't seem to work, and confusion about chips/cards. Does anyone have experience with recent SAS cards or machines with integrated chips? Thanks!
Josh Endries wrote:> Hello, > > I'm buying a new server and will put 6.3 on it and would like to use > SAS; normally I use 3ware SATA. I've been reading a lot including man > pages but can't seem to find definitive information on SAS cards that > are well-supported and work well. I've found reports that cards listed > in man pages don't seem to work, and confusion about chips/cards. Does > anyone have experience with recent SAS cards or machines with integrated > chips? >LSI, Highpoint, Areca, 3ware, and Adaptec are all well supported in FreeBSD. Scott
> and confusion about chips/cards. Does anyone have experience with recent SAS > cards or machines with integrated chips?The P400 controllers from HP work beautifully under FreeBSD. Have run them on both 6.3 (i386) and 7.0 (amd64) and they are stable and perform well. We have sixteen machines rolled out with these in running various different releases of FreeBSD. I would certainly recommend them (and indeed have nabbed one for home use off ebay which I am going to put into the next machine I build). -pete.