From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 26 18:18:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619CE15462 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maddox@p-1.eng.sun.com) Received: from engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.1.13]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27516; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p-1.eng.sun.com (p-1.Eng.Sun.COM [129.144.125.250]) by engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/ENSMAIL,v1.6) with ESMTP id SAA14230; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (maddox@localhost) by p-1.eng.sun.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA05606; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:17:51 -0700 (PDT) From: William Maddox X-Sender: maddox@p-1 To: David Greenman Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Support for Symbios vs. Adaptect SCSI In-Reply-To: <199905232235.PAA06073@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You recently made the following remark on freebsd-hardware: > The Adaptec chips are generally better supported in > FreeBSD and I wouldn't consider anything else for systems that I build. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Could you elaborate on what you mean by "better supported"? Do you mean: 1) Has fewer bugs? 2) Makes better use of the hardware capabilities? 3) Has a maintainer who is willing/able to devote more time to the task? Are there specific deficiencies in the drivers for the Symbios cards that cause you to recommend against them? I ask because I have heard many positive comments regarding the Symbios-based cards, generally to the effect that they offer performance nearly indistinguishable from Adaptec (at least for a workstation) and are clearly a lot cheaper. I've also had good results with an Asus SC-200 under Linux. Given your role in the FreeBSD project, however, I would expect that you have the straight scoop on this, and a lot more experience with SCSI cards and FreeBSD. Thanks for any info you might offer. William Maddox To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message