most rock solid SATA Raid card for 5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-RELEASE

[Glenn's mailing lists]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, user wrote:

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> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Glenn's mailing lists wrote:
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>>> Is there something more "de facto" - something more solid and supported on
>>> freebsd than the 2610SA ?
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>> If you're referring to the 21610SA, the aac driver has had support since
>> 5.3-RELEASE
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> No, that is the 16-port card, and yes - I see it listed in aac_pci.c - I
> am talking about the 2610SA, which is a six port SATA raid card.

I don't see that model listed on the adaptec site, do you have a link?

-Glenn

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> I found a patch for aac_pci.c that adds the identifiers:
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> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-July/012828.html
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> but I just want to make sure that this is a non-hack way to run this card
> in 5.4-RELEASE.
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> If the only addition to aac_pci.c is the identifiers, then can I assume
> that the 2610SA will be as solid as any other raid card that uses aac
> (like dell PERCs) ?
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> Any comments at all are appreciated.
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