-----Original Message----- From: Hans du Plooy [mailto:hansdp-lists@sagacit.com] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:29 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 3ware vs Areca SATA cards

Hi have heard nothing but praise for the 3ware cards, but nothing much about Areca's cards in linux.

Does anybody have experience of both or of the Areca cards, can you give us some feedback?

The Areca cards look mighty fine. I like the Raid-6 capability, and

3ware cards work fine for me. Two "complaints", more just things to look out for: - No RPM that've ever been able to find for the 3dm2 management application for SuSE. I did find one for Fedora, but it's got some files in the wrong place. - In cases where the machine has an on-board (sata_sil) SATA controller in addition to the 3ware card, I've had issues with the order in which the disks appear. In the installer, the onboard controller appeared first; when booting the system, the 3ware controller and it's array appeared first. (This happened consistently across 3 machines with different motherboards.) I ended up having to specify the module load order as "sata_sil 3w-9xxx" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and rebuild the initrd to get them to load properly. Other than those two quibbles...I've used the 7500 series, 8500 series, and 9500 series, and they've all worked fine under SuSE. the

management options...

Thanks Hans

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