IDE Raid controllers

[Mike Tancsa]

I have been using 3ware controllers on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows for
a few years now.  They are really great cards, especially under
FreeBSD.  I have many 6xxx, 7xxx and about half a dozen 8xxx cards
deployed with great results. For SMP, I have a 7xxx and one 8xxx on a
dual Xeon and one on a Dual Athlon.  Our one RAID 5 box works great in
the following config

Monitor version: ME7X 1.01.00.038 
Firmware version: FE7X 1.05.00.056 
BIOS version: BE7X 1.08.00.046 
PCB version: Rev3 
Achip version: 3.20 
Pchip version: 1.30-33 
Model: 7810 
Unit count: 2 


ID 0  3ware 3W-7810 disk controller
Array Unit 0  Mirror (RAID 1)  37.27 GB   OK
Port 0 ST340014A    37.27 GB   OK 
Port 1 ST340014A    37.27 GB   OK 

Array Unit 2  Striped with Parity 64K (RAID 5)  745.24 GB   OK
Port 2 ST3160021A    149.5 GB   OK 
Port 3 ST3160021A    149.5 GB   OK 
Port 4 ST3160021A    149.5 GB   OK 
Port 5 ST3160021A    149.5 GB   OK 
Port 6 ST3160021A    149.5 GB   OK 
Port 7 ST3160023A    149.5 GB   OK 

We use it for an offsite backup server.  I had one drive go bad last
November.  Powered down the box, swapped the dead drive, hit rebuild,
and let it go on its merry way rebuilding.  

	---Mike

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:46:29 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware
you wrote:

>
>
>Anyone know a good IDE Raid controller that works under a SMP FreeBSD
>system?
>
>I'm looking for something that can do RAID 5, something stable and is
>hardware based (I heard some controllers just use the main CPU to do raid
>instead of having a built on chip).
>
>Anyone use 3ware cards under FreeBSD?
>
>
>-Jack
>
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