On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:13:35 -0400
Ajai Khattri <ajai@bway.net> wrote:

> Any ATA RAID controllers supported by the i386 port?
> 
> -- 
> Aj.
> Sys. Admin / Developer
> 

Luke Mewburn recently posted the following to port-i386. 

> NetBSD supports a variety of IDE (ATA) RAID cards.
> 
> The ones which are "real" RAID versus "mickey-mouse" `BIOS raid' include:
> 
>     *	Adaptec 2400A.
> 	Support for 4 drives.
> 	CLI management tools work under NetBSD. 
> 	The performance isn't too great though (dd seems to peak at
> 	about 10MB/s; I suspect badly written firmware given that a
> 	dd on a component disk on the same card get's > 40MB/s)
> 	NetBSD 1.6 supports this out of the box.
> 	[I own a 2400A, and had a 2100S in the past]
> 
>     *	3Ware Escalade series, including 75xx and 85xx.
> 	Supports 4, 8, or 12 drives (depending on model).
> 	Command-line management tools available.
> 	Performance is very good for RAID-1, and the 75xx/85xx has RAID-5
> 	acceleration (although I have not personally tested that.)
> 	The 85xx cards are SATA (serial ATA) instead of ATA.
> 	NetBSD 1.6 supports this out of the box.
> 	[I use a 6400 in my main file server]
> 
>     *	Intel (ICP Vortex) SRCS14L "taft" cards.
> 	4 channel SATA.
> 	CLI management tools are available.
> 	Performance is quite good from what I've seen.
> 	You may need -current to support this.
> 	FYI: Adaptec recently purchased this division off Intel.
> 
> 
> In all of these cases, you configure a RAID-1 mirror in the BIOS, and
> when NetBSD boots it just sees the RAID set as a single "ld0".
> 
> 
> If I was buying a RAID card & disks today, I'd get a 3Ware 8500-4 or
> an Adaptec(Intel(ICP)) SCRC14L card, both of which support 4 SATA disks.
> 


I suspect that the mailing list search function on the netbsd homepage would
reveal other realted posts as well.


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Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
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