On 8/23/06, Willem Jan Withagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server.
Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at the CeBIT
I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8.
With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual core opteron.
In itself is this a combo that I thing would do for a long time at my home. ;)
However the 3ware controler decided not to play nice with 2 of the PCI-X
boards I have here. It gets stuck in the bios disc scan.
Disable int 13. The card is probably trying to load it's boot BIOS and
another card is interfering with it... I had a Promise card that loved
to f**k with my HighPoint controller. The solution to the problem was
disabling int 13 on the HighPoint card by re-flashing the cards BIOS
with a special switch set, I didn't need to boot from this card
anyways.
So I'm looking for alternatives with good support under amd64. I've seen that
the Adaptecs are supported under aac(4). But what about Promisse or Highpoint
RAID controllers?
Stay away from Adaptec and Promise because they don't support FreeBSD.
I would recommend Areca and/or HighPoint because they do officially
support FreeBSD. 3Ware does support FreeBSD but I don't have
experience with their cards so I can't say anything good or bad about
them.
If you want to go 64-bit Areca drivers are open source and the FreeBSD
man page states that they work on amd64.
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