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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:52:30 +0200
From: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dual Fibre Channel Host Adapter
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> we have few amd64 FreeBSD 5.4 boxes and we would like to buy
> some Dual Fibre Channel Host Adapter.
> We would like to know which is the best supported by FreeBSD.
> If you have any reference (another mailing list, some sites etc.)
> please let us know.
> We have already visited
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-amd64.html#DISK
> but we would like to hear the users' opinion.
> Thanks a lot.

I tried qlogic's 2310 (single port) hba on a Dell 2850 with 4 GB RAM
and the amd64-port and the isp-driver. I experienced some panics which
did not happen on the i386-port. This may have to do with the amount
of RAM. So you probably want to test this in advance.

regards
Claus