From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 10:25:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6229A16A468 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:25:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCA713C46E for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:25:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l57APjqm034094; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 04:25:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4667DD22.80909@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:25:38 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nico -telmich- Schottelius References: <20070607085611.GC25624@schottelius.org> In-Reply-To: <20070607085611.GC25624@schottelius.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:25:46 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some thoughts 'bout scsi controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:25:49 -0000 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