Debian, 3Ware RAID controllers & Opterons

[Jason Clinton]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 11:26 -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> - - Has anyone used the current 3Ware drivers with linux (preferrably in a
> compile-your-own kernel environment)?

I recommend against 3-Ware due to their poor performance. I also
discourage people away from LSI/Symbiosis Megaraid configurations.

I have had excellent luck with the Adaptec stuff in both performance and
in speed in Linux.

> - - If so, what's your environment (disto, 32/64-bit) and how well do they
> work (speed, stability)?

Kernels 2.6.8, 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.6.14 32-bit SMP all perform poorly with
3-Ware for me. Various distributions.

> - - Is anyone running the AMD64 port of Debian (sarge), and if so what are
> your thoughts about using this in a production environment (or should I
> stick with the plain x86 port for now)?

I'm on the Debian-Devel mailing list and I highly recommend AGAINST it.
It doesn't yet have "first class" status with the dev team. It's
scheduled for full support in December of 2006.


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