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 Areca people were very cooperative, they tested and reviewed the initial > port of the arcmsr driver (from FreeBSD). > Many of their adapters include an ethernet port which can be used for > supervision, removing the need to install a special low-level utility in the > host OS. > > I only had access to one 3Ware adapter, but it also worked out of the box and > I have reports of different recent models also working flawlessly. > > There are some LSI models known to work flawlessly. Unfortunately, they seem > to be old products which are not sold anymore. > > With all the troubles I had getting Adaptec cards to work reliably before > DragonFly was even booted, I cannot seriously consider to purchase products > of this brand. > > > 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.
Tests like these are awesome. Thank you! max