From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 9:26:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0283B37B417 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fA6HMBT26232; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:22:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BE81DB3.5080702@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 12:28:19 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? References: <20011106121119.T30240-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Kenneth Mays wrote: > > >>Why not use the Intel 10/100 NICs?? >> > > As I recall, there's a very weird and hard-to-replicate > interaction problem between the fxp driver and vinum that leads to > corrupted RAID-5 volumes. > > Good enough reason for me not to spend the money on Intel NICs. Is this documented anywhere in more detail? I have three servers that I've installed and admin with Vinum + fxp driver and have had no problems whatsoever. None of these are running RAID-5, however, so if the problem only occurs with RAID-5, I won't have seen it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message