Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:25:38 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-freebsd-scsi@schottelius.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some thoughts 'bout scsi controllers Message-ID: <4667DD22.80909@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20070607085611.GC25624@schottelius.org> References: <20070607085611.GC25624@schottelius.org>
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Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: > Just trying to put some information together: > > - aac: seems to be problematic with 29320, 39320, 2120, 2130S; adaptec seems to > be not so good supporting freebsd. The gmirror/raid1 > issues seem to be still there. The aac driver controls the 2120 and 2130, the ahd driver controls the 29320 and 39320. I must have missed your bug reports for the aac issues. > - mpt: seems to be the recommened choice of some people in the > community, the 53c1030 seems to be a popular u320 chip (not sure in > which devices it it used) It works reasonably well, yes. > - amr: the 'old' megaraid (=lsi) scsi (parallel)/sata driver: Seems to > be also one of the recommended chips, though there where/are issues > about unmaintained lsi drivers Excuse me? I'm the maintainer of this driver, and I've never heard from you. > - mfi: new sas lsi megaraid devices, also Dell PERC5/i; not much > feedback recieved for this one These work well. > > We are looking on several servers and variants to replace the broken sc1425 with the > 39320 in it. I think one option would be a dell pe2950 (with perc5i/mfi) > or to get a mpt or amr supported u320 card. The MPT and AMR cards are not equivalent. > > Though, still not sure whether the dell pe2950 will not be the cause for > new errors. The Dell 2950 platform works very well with FreeBSD. Scott
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