From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 22:30:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C5916A47C for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:30:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listacct@tulsaconnect.com) Received: from cgpro2.tulsaconnect.com (pop3.tulsaconnect.com [65.38.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A5C43D86 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:30:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listacct@tulsaconnect.com) Received: from [65.38.0.2] (HELO [192.168.30.3]) by cgpro2.tulsaconnect.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.8) with ESMTPS id 217809410 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:30:26 -0500 Message-ID: <452D708D.6090303@tulsaconnect.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:30:37 -0500 From: TCIS List Acct User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Best supported Fibre Channel HBA for FreeBSD 6.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:30:27 -0000 Hi all, I'm getting ready to deploy a group of new FreeBSD 6.x machines for use as a mail server cluster and need to know what the "best supported" / stable 2GB Fibre Channel HBA is (for use in connecting to a Infortrend SATA RAID array). QLogic and LSI Logic are brands I've used in the past, but any suggestions are welcome. PCI-X or PCI-E are my choices as far as interface goes.. TIA. --Mike