On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:21:03PM +1000, Sam Vaughan wrote: > To complement the man pages, the supported hardware pages and what I've > found in the archives on marc, I'd be interested to read any SAS HBA > recommendations people might have.
LSI MPT. > I'm looking at some used Sun x4150 servers which have 8-lane PCIe slots > but come with no built-in SAS/SATA controller. I'd be interested in > running RAID 10 with a hot spare and I'd like to make use of an OpenBSD > driver that supports bioctl. (I'm assuming OpenBSD runs on x4150s - the > armorlogic site only lists Opteron Galaxy servers) LSI MFI adapters are nice. > I'm also curious about why vastly more RAID controllers are supported in > the i386 port than the amd64 port. Is this because a lot of them aren't > 64bit clean? Do some people as a result choose to run the i386 port on > em64t hardware? I don't know of any raid driver that doesn't work on amd64 that does work on i386. > > Sam
