SATA RAID Controller (PCIe)

[Mike Tancsa]

At 09:24 AM 10/01/2006, Paulo Fragoso wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Are there any SATA RAID card controller for PCI Express bus working 
>with FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE?


I have been using the Areca cards on a couple of production boxes 
with good results so far.  They work out of the box with FreeBSD 5.4 and above.

http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pciE-sata.htm

They are nice and fast and have a decent cli and web interface to 
them.  The drivers are in the tree. See the man pages for arcmsr


[ns6b]# ./cli "vsf info"
  # Name             Raid# Level   Capacity 
Ch/Id/Lun  State
===============================================================================
  1 ARC-1210-VOL#00    1   Raid0+1  240.0GB 00/00/00   Normal
===============================================================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.
[ns6b]# ./cli "hw info"
The Hardware Monitor Information
===========================================
Fan#1 Speed (RPM)  : 2772
HDD #1 Temp.       : 30
HDD #2 Temp.       : 30
HDD #3 Temp.       : 30
HDD #4 Temp.       : 29
===========================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.
[ns6b]#



         ---Mike