Current favored SCSI RAID controller?

[Scott Long]

Tadaaki Nagao wrote:
> In "Re: Current favored SCSI RAID controller?",
>     Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> 
>>The Adaptec (non-ICP) controllers probably have the best command line
>>management tool.  The ICP tool is passable, but getting it to work seems
>>to be problematic for some people.  The LSI tool is very bare bones.
>>Just about all of the SCSI RAID controllers out there are supported well
>>by FreeBSD, with the exception of the older Adaptec controllers that 
>>fall under the asr driver.  Avoid that at all costs.
> 
> 
> Would you give some more information if possible, on why the asr
> controllers should be avoided and/or what issues they have?
> 
> I'm getting a little anxious, because I've been using tens of asr
> RAID controllers at work for years and haven't realized (or simply
> can't remember ;-) any issue except that the CLI management tool
> isn't clear which option takes a physical or logical disk address.
> 

For amd64, the asr driver is completely broken, and fixing it requires
a lot of work.  For i386, it does work, but it is unmaintained.

Scott