From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jul 19 16:39: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3870337B774 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27895; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:47:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007192347.QAA27895@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Scott Donovan" Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Smart Cache VI and FBSD 4.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:51:44 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:47:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Ahh righto.. Hmm I wonder if this is an area where the BSDi people could > have an effect. Lately I am having to make a number of hardware choices am > unhappy with to keep FreeBSD installed. In this case I changed my order to a > mylex card, for which the support where I am is not great. I don't know if "the BSDi people" will have an effect here; I'm not sure how easy it might be to migrate the BSD/OS DPT driver to FreeBSD, or if DPT would be happy with that (I think they would). > Further to this is there any known comparisons for the the various raid > products under FreeBSD anywhere? (Previously to this I have been using a > transparent raid system). I don't have any comparisons, just listings at http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID > Hmm Perhaps someone needs to throw a LOT of money at simon to get the i2o > card reintegrated into the -stable and -current branches! The last I heard, Simon was dealing with some health issues and a lot of workload. I'm not sure if he's going to get back to I2O or not. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message