Subject: Re: Areca RAID controller driver?
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Wienck <awienck@solnet.ch>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/07/2007 18:27:10
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:16:18PM +0100, André Wienck wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:06:05 +0200 Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi> wrote:
> > I'm still not getting a decent performance out of a 3ware 9550SXU
> > card with RAID5 and lots of small files.  My hw dealer was kind enough
> 
> I think that this is impossible. ;-)

Heh. ;-)  Well, the Areca card performed way better, so it would be nice to
give it a try.

> > So the question is: Is anyone working on ARC driver for NetBSD?
> 
> If a different BSD has a driver already, it should be an easy fix.

There's a FreeBSD driver (among others), according to the manufacturer:

http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm

  -jm