"Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU> wrote in message
news:<20060330203505.GD27731@multics.mit.edu>...
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:45:49PM -0800, Marc Tooley wrote:
> > I have a Tyan Thunder K8W 2885 w/ 8GB RAM and an LSI MegaRAID 300-8X. 
> > The MB is populated with two Opteron 246's.
> 
> I was consistently disappointed with the performance of the 300-8X.  The
> 3ware 9550SX, OTOH, is *REALLY* nice.  Unfortunately, the driver hasn't
> been (publicly) ported.
> 

I have here an Intel SRCS28X with LSI chipset. Write performace is very poor
- max. 5MB/s reported by bonnie. It's a RAID5 composed of 5* 250 GB SATA and
a spare. This is how it gets detected:

amr0 at pci3 dev 14 function 0: AMI RAID <Intel(R) RAID Controller SRCS28X>
amr0: interrupting at ioapic2 pin 0 (irq 11)
amr0: firmware 814B, BIOS H431, 128MB RAM
ld0 at amr0 unit 0: RAID 5, optimal
ld0: 927 GB, 121089 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1945305088
sectors

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Mihai