From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 08:03:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0996316A400 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:03:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lydianconcepts@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC9713C428 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:03:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lydianconcepts@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so888282nfc for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:03:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EEVoUddZbK6JMDqGmSCQ7ZTgPObhrndIPa1do8ZdRBebTxXFFmJEjiH2A2zW4bsfJKZc1q3N3PnVPPLn8U4oRq9YHwop+yMwHX5Ej89i2QnK12CW29GWTwBeW9fXp08pvy6MA3SuBEqltlX5pMnWFmqnSd3ooLx07OuQXxRLPnw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m2i/hyfa7kx4rEnCg6yRHNzIOH9jobs1NMpYlWlAkK5vH7x9QmBzr/M1x/ASCra1UmI5H2yUHcvwFE1WA3saUF4diOpIvPJqKUbaEpjvklNx4DtrNNjj3NkuYLB67Cx8Cn9XoiuRfd5SrrnQkptBAkf8bPa07T/lFZoa4w4nn4Q= Received: by 10.115.106.7 with SMTP id i7mr428840wam.1173425915604; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.25.18 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:38:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7579f7fb0703082338q489dfcb5sd1affa5c00e1deec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:38:35 -0800 From: "Matthew Jacob" To: "Claus Guttesen" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6D01FD53-497A-46FE-ADC3-4988DB2ADD74@khera.org> Cc: Vivek Khera , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: fibre channel cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:03:21 -0000 Generally speaking, the LSI-Logic cards are faster, at least for 2Gb, in terms of IOPS. However, the LSI-Logic firmware is less capable of coping with complicated topologies and the mpt(4) driver is less mature than isp(4). Another thing to keep in mind is that for new cards (as opposed to 'EBay' cards) that LSI is half the port cost of QLogic. On 3/8/07, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > Are there any other fibre channel cards supported on FreeBSD? > > > > What card would one recommend to connect to an external RAID array > > for running a fairly busy database (several million inserts/selects/ > > updates per day)? > > I've tried qlogic's 2310 and haven't had any issue with those. I did > recompile the kernel and included ispfw which is commented out by > default in GENERIC. I don't know whether they perform better or worse > than hba's from LSI. > > regards > Claus > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >