On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:51:55AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> 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.

Thanks,
Does it have tools to manage from NetBSD ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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