From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 07:56:02 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 474E616A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:56:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wonko@4amlunch.net) Received: from wiggum.4amlunch.net (wiggum.4amlunch.net [64.232.250.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E757B43D45 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:56:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wonko@4amlunch.net) Received: by wiggum.4amlunch.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 6724C323F; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:56:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:55:59 -0500 From: Brian Hechinger To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060126075559.GA7749@wiggum.4amlunch.net> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Hechinger , freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org References: <20060126035150.GK7193@wiggum.4amlunch.net> <43D87822.7060405@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D87822.7060405@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-Useless-Header: Why? Because i can. 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 07:56:02 -0000 On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:20:02AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > MegaRAID is supported very well on little-endian machines (notice the > emphasis here), Bah. Would it be a simple case of endian-ness cleanup, or is there more to it than that? > though I'm not sure what that has to do with your > question about FC target mode. Need something to offer to the FC network!! ;) > >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. That's not good news, although honestly, I've never had good luck with SiL in the past on other OSes either. > There are several good choices for SATA RAID, though > the drivers likely are not endian-clean. Ok, tossing the endian-ness issue to the side (I'm willing to clean up the drivers if I can) which are the prefered SATA RAID controllers for FreeBSD? The MegaRAID 150-4 looked good to me. ;) -brian -- "The reason I don't use Gnome: every single other window manager I know of is very powerfully extensible, where you can switch actions to different mouse buttons. Guess which one is not, because it might confuse the poor users? Here's a hint: it's not the small and fast one." --Linus