On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:23:05PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > Anybody here has an experience with Sil3114 or Areca RAID SATA > > controllers? > > > > I'm wondering which one is best on AMD64, or if I stick with a 3Ware > > Escalade 8600 instead. > > > > I'm planning to use Debian Sarge, of course. > > I haven't used any of them, but from what I have read, the 3ware drivers > are very mature and have been around for a while. The Areca drivers I > suspect you have to compile and install yourself (making installing > somewhat more difficult on one).
The -mm kernels come with Areca drivers. they are at at least included in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1. Andrew Morton keeps a set of broken out patches, so you can also patch other kernels: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/broken-out/ I think you need areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch and areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-fix.patch (in that order). > The few benchmarks I have seen indicate the 3ware is easily the > fastest of them. The benchmarks in the respected german computer magazine c't suggests the Areca cards are faster. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]