Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:50:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: William Maddox <maddox@p-1.eng.sun.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Symbios vs. Adaptect SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905261848540.63479-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199905270135.SAA04503@implode.root.com>
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Now let me annoy and stir the pot by stating that Qlogic cards, while more expensive than either Adaptec or Symbios cards aren't bad performers and support Ultra2 (Qlogic 1080's) in FreeBSD but also relatively seamlessly also support Fibre Channel (private loop) with the same driver. (ducking away from thrown vegetables...) On Wed, 26 May 1999, David Greenman wrote: > > > >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? > > "Yes". Anything further on this needs to come from Justin Gibbs. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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