On 11/12/2009 12:05 PM, Stephane LAPIE wrote: > Hello, > > While looking for cheap non-RAID SAS controllers for the purpose of > building ZFS storage based on storage vaults accessed as JBOD, I came > across the following controllers on Areca's website and noticed the > mention "BSD/FreeBSD (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter)". > > They are not reported in the arcmsr(4) manual page, which leaves me > confused as to whether these models are supported or not by FreeBSD 8.0 > at this point, and I would gladly welcome any > comment/experience/recommendation related to using these chips in a > FreeBSD environment. >
This looks interesting. It's exactly what I was looking for a few months back. In the end I settled on a 1230-ML and could not be happier. Any ideas of the price? Keep in mind though this card does not appear to have battery backed cache. That is one of the reasons I was keen on the 1230-ML. When you configure the drives in passthrough (not JBOD!) mode, you take full advantage of the cache. Just my 0.02c worth. -D _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
