On 03/16 03:16 , Guus Houtzager wrote:
> Speaking of 3dm: my experiences with that are not so good.
> - no debian package I could find

we ended up building our own.

> - bit of a weird startup procedure without clear messages if it started OK or 
> not (and why it wouldn't start)
> - it had a memory leak
> - crashed every now and then

3dm2 is much more reliable than 3dm was.

> I like the 3ware cards fine enough, but I think I would buy Areca stuff now, 
> but they don't have a driver in the vanilla kernel source (it's in -mm 
> though, but I don;t really want to run that on production servers).

I know someone who's used Areca cards; and he says they work fine under
FreeBSD; but the linux drivers for them are too buggy. Drives will
occasionally disappear from the array, and require a complete reboot to
solve the issue. very high performance compared to 3ware, but the linux
drivers need work. :(

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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