From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 07:20:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D70816A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:20:01 +0000 (GMT) (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 F2D5943D49 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:20:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0Q7JssC035727; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:19:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <43D87822.7060405@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:20:02 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051230 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Hechinger References: <20060126035150.GK7193@wiggum.4amlunch.net> In-Reply-To: <20060126035150.GK7193@wiggum.4amlunch.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Target Mode FC X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:20:01 -0000 Brian Hechinger wrote: > What's the current status of Target Mode Fiber Channel these days? I'm > interested in doing it with a sparc64 box. Is there a recommended FC card? > I think I've got a couple QLogic 2100s laying around (I'd have to check what > model they are, they are the ones that a sun can't boot from, so that leads > me to believe that they are 2100s) > > How well supported are the LSI MegaRAID cards as well? I could probably just > bite the bullet and do software RAID since this box will be doing nothing else, > but I just like hardware RAID. ;) MegaRAID is supported very well on little-endian machines (notice the emphasis here), though I'm not sure what that has to do with your question about FC target mode. > > Short of that, whare are good supported SATA cards? How about the SiL 3114 > cards? There are a number of issues with SiI chips which make it hard to write a reliable driver. There are several good choices for SATA RAID, though the drivers likely are not endian-clean. Scott