On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:08:39PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> We've previously been using 3ware 8500 series RAID cards which we can no 
> longer get hold of. So I need to pick a replacement that supports 8 S-ATA 
> drives...
> 
> AIUI, 3ware 9500 is (will be) supported in 3.1 by twa (I also saw some 
> notices about changes to allow command line management tools to be run - 
> any hope of a pullup to netbsd-3?).
> 
> The alternative is an Adaptec 2810SA (slightly more pricy) which the 3.1 
> source shows is supported by aac.
> 
> Any particular recommendations either way? They are both a similar price, 
> both SATA-150 (not 300) and so forth.

I can't talk for aac, but I'm very happy with the twa performances.

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