supermicro X6DHP-8G2

Ken Gunderson kgunders at teamcool.net
Tue Apr 19 09:15:10 PDT 2005


On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:12:28 -0600
Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:

> Marc Lambrichs wrote:
> > I want to use raid5 on my supermicro 6014P-82R with a X6DHP-8G2 
> > motherboard. So we had to let go of our Adaptec 2010S ZCR card, because 
> > it's not supported. What would you recommend to use instead?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > marc
> > 
> 
> The 2010S is special since it uses the non-64-bit-clean ASR driver.
> Other Adaptec cards like the 2200 use the AAC driver which is
> 64-bit clean and is known to work on amd64.  The LSI MegaRAID
> line of cards uses the AMR driver which is also 64-bit clean and
> known to work.  Those are your only two choices for SCSI RAID.
> One thing to watch out for is that Intel rebrands ZCR cards from
> both ICP/Vortex and LSI.  The driver for the former, IIR, is not
> 64-bit clean.

Thanks for this Scott.  Is it safe to conclude that the Adaptec
2130S listed under fbsd hw-amd64 fall under this category since they
use same driver?  Also safe to assume same for 2130SLP, wh/I don't
see listed?? Or is Apdaptec playing chipset games between these models??

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Ken Gunderson
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