From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 11:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-168.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6140937B405 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA6JrHF30726 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:53:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:53:12 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? In-Reply-To: <3BE81DB3.5080702@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: <20011106145210.J30664-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > 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. It's come up on this list a few times, when Greg Lehey has been trying to pull the necessary information out of someone to chase this bug down and squash it. It only occurs with RAID-5 and fxp, apparently, and even then, not frequently or in any reproducible manner. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message