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Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> so I need to get a new server. I'd like to have 14 SATA drives on 2 RAID 
> raid adapters. The adapter should:
> - be well supported by NetBSD-3.x/i386 (a backport of a current driver
>   may be acceptable)
> - be managable from NetBSD (no reboot to BIOS to get disks status,
>   start a reconstruct, etc ...)
> - have at last 128MB battery-backed cache (I'd prefer more, but I'm not sure
>   this exists)
> 
> What would folks running such hardware recommend ?
> 
> Also, does anyone know Areca sata controllers ? One reseller here mention
> them but I didn't found any info on theses.
> 

I'm using LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4 on two systems.  One of my servers has 
8 400GB SATA drives on two of these controllers in RAID-5 configuration. 
I'm quite pleased with the controller.

LSI has some newer devices for which support was very recently added to 
CURRENT; I have no experience with them.

-- 
John R. Shannon, CISSP
john@johnrshannon.com
jshannon@dsci-usa.com
john.r.shannon@us.army.mil
shannonjr@NetBSD.org

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