From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 14:07:35 2004 Return-Path: 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 680A316A4CE; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:07:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.distrust.net (mail.distrust.net [69.93.230.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F2E43D2D; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:07:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dsze@mail.distrust.net) Received: from mail.distrust.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.distrust.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i62E6qO0041863; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:06:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dsze@mail.distrust.net) Received: (from dsze@localhost) by mail.distrust.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i62E6ot6041862; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:06:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dsze) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:06:50 -0500 From: David Sze To: Matthias Andree Message-ID: <20040702140650.GA41797@mail.distrust.net> References: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> <6.1.2.0.2.20040630092141.02c54ec0@mail.distrust.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.73, clamav-milter version 0.73a on mail.distrust.net X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:07:35 -0000 On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:03:27PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > David Sze writes: > > > If you will be using a motherboard with an LSI Logic chipset (mpt driver > > under FreeBSD), definitely do _not_ get Hitachi/IBM drives. > > There's more than one LSI chipset (there are at least the sym, mpt and > amr cards, sym for 53c8xx and 53c1010, mpt for 53c1020 and 53c1030, AMR > for MegaRAID stuff). I can see how my message was ambiguous - I only meant the "mpt" driver (hence the part in brackets), the 53c1030 for sure, don't know about the 53c1020. > > There's a weird interaction that causes the OS not to boot if there is > > more than one Hitachi drive attached to an mpt controller. A single > > drive works fine. > > That might be a matter of the BIOS in question. Perhaps, but consider that there are no problems with more than one of any other brand of drive. Just look at the archives: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004638.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004640.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004689.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2003-October/000770.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-November/004924.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2003-December/000871.html http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-August/015092.html Until the "mpt" driver gets an active FreeBSD maintainer, I'd stay away from it in combination with Hitachi/IBM drives.