Re: Tests of RAID adapters

2011-04-27 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 07:38:57PM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: On 4/25/2011 9:12, Francois Tigeot wrote: LSI SAS 3081E-R --- The RAID1 volume created in the BIOS of the card was visible but there were some timeout error messages from the start: I couldn't install DragonFly,

Re: Tests of RAID adapters

2011-04-27 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:18:49PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 07:38:57PM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: On 4/25/2011 9:12, Francois Tigeot wrote: LSI SAS 3081E-R --- [...] I've put an update for mpt(4) here:

Tests of RAID adapters

2011-04-25 Thread Francois Tigeot
adapters. The tests were done with a DragonFly 2.9/x86_64 snapshot from 2011-04-19. Besides the various RAID adapters, the following hardware was used: - 1x Supermicro X7SPA-H mainboard with Atom D510 CPU - 1x 2GB DDR2 667 SODIMM - 2x Samsung SATA 3Gb/s 160GB hard drives - 1x SATA DVD-ROM Drive

Re: Tests of RAID adapters

2011-04-25 Thread Max Herrgard
25 apr 2011 kl. 09.12 skrev Francois Tigeot: Hi all, During last week, I've done some systematic hardware tests to determine which recent RAID cards work fine with DragonFly. ... Conclusions --- I'm very impressed by Areca. All their cards worked flawlessly out of the box. The

Re: Tests of RAID adapters

2011-04-25 Thread Sascha Wildner
On 4/25/2011 9:12, Francois Tigeot wrote: LSI SAS 3081E-R --- http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/lsisas3081er/ The RAID1 volume created in the BIOS of the card was visible but there were some timeout error messages from the start: dmesg

Re: Tests of RAID adapters

2011-04-25 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 25.04.2011 09:12, schrieb Francois Tigeot: [...] Conclusions --- If you want a RAID adapter to use with DragonFly, Areca and 3Ware are the two best choices of the moment, my first choice beeing Areca. [...} This is very interesting. Thanks a lot for the effort Jan --