Subject: Re: supported h/w raid controllers (SATA or IDE)
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/27/2006 15:03:31
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
>>> But I don't know which of them is much good, so throw myself
>>> open to the wisdom of the list.  Any suggestions?  What's good
>>> and cheap (I know ...) and easy to get hold of?
>> Further to this, I can get the Adaptec 2410SA at an affordable
>> price (it's around $500 AUD - roughly the cost of a 400GB HDD).
> 
> I'd recommend against that controller.  I am not even entirely sure
> it will work with the aac driver (that driver has needed an update
> for a long, long time).  If you're willing to settle for a controller
> without online managment tools for NetBSD (also true of the Adaptec)
> you might consider the LSI MegaRAID instead -- the 150-4, 150-6, or
> 300.

The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards S/W RAID1,
getting rid of the need for possibly dodgey support for these
controllers.

Does anyone here know of any effort to port ZFS to NBSD?