[nycbug-talk] SATA RAID options under FBSD 4.x

[Dan Langille]

On 12 Aug 2006 at 18:33, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> What's out there for somewhat high performance RAID controllers under 
> FreeBSD 4.x?  I've been playing with a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.1 and it's 
> great - blows away our old scsi stuff and is much better than the older 
> 3Ware cards.  But no driver (twa) for 4.x.  Same story with Areca and the 
> LSI SATA RAID cards.

I can also vouch for that 3Ware card:

   http://www.freebsddiary.org/dual-opteron-raptors.php
   http://www.freebsddiary.org/3ware-9550SX-8LP-cli.php

And next week, I'll have a NetSaint plugin for that card.

> 
> Adaptec is something I'm looking to stay away from.  What else is there?
> 
> Also...  I noticed the freebsd-scsi list is pretty dead these days.  Is 
> there another list where general scsi/raid questions might get a larger 
> audience?

Is there a particular reason why you can't use 6.1 in this situation?

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