Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:32:08 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: Steve Kaczkowski <steve@inc.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI on FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20000105223208.A31627@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051338260.3393-100000@thud.tbe.net>; from gary@tbe.net on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 01:42:49PM -0500 References: <38738EA9.91FB4629@inc.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051338260.3393-100000@thud.tbe.net>
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 13:42:49 -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > Yeah... I'm trying to get all the Seagate Medalist UW drives out of our > current news server... they don't like the DPT-3334UW card in there The > second data silo just gives errors when hooked up to it. > > Though I must say, all 15 of our other servers running the same DPT cards, > tho with many fewer drives, run fast and well, but my faith in them is > starting to waiver. > > Replaced it with Adaptecs, and it works fine... not a driver problem, but > even DPT support said that they don't work well with the Medalist line. > They reccommended Cheetahs instead, but I'm now going to rely on IBM > exclusively. I've had enough of Seagate's crap after roughly 40 RMA'd > drives in a little over a year. FWIW, the Seagate Medalist Pro gives pretty lousy performance. We had to quirk it to just 2 outstanding transactions to maximize performance. In other words, stay away from it. I'm not surprised that DPT doesn't work well with it. The Cheetahs are good, though, as are Barracudas. And yes, IBM disks work very well too. (Some of their high end disks have onboard temperature sensors, which is kinda cool. You can read the temperature with camcontrol.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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