From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 10:46:18 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 D65AE16A400 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:46:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nico-freebsd-scsi@schottelius.org) Received: from denkbrett.schottelius.org (natgw.netstream.ch [62.65.128.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F15513C44B for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:46:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nico-freebsd-scsi@schottelius.org) Received: by denkbrett.schottelius.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 16C401205C5; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:46:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:46:28 +0200 From: Nico -telmich- Schottelius To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20070607104628.GC26318@schottelius.org> References: <20070607085611.GC25624@schottelius.org> <4667DD22.80909@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/Uq4LBwYP4y1W6pO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4667DD22.80909@samsco.org> User-Agent: echo $message | gpg -e $sender -s | netcat mailhost 25 X-Unix-Info: http://unix.schottelius.org/ X-Netzseite: http://nico.schottelius.org/ X-System-Info: denkbrett running Linux 2.6.21.3-denkbrett on i686 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 10:46:18 -0000 --/Uq4LBwYP4y1W6pO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Scott, Scott Long [Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:25:38AM -0600]: > Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: > >- amr: the 'old' megaraid (=3Dlsi) scsi (parallel)/sata driver: Seems to > > be also one of the recommended chips, though there where/are issues > > about unmaintained lsi drivers >=20 > Excuse me? I'm the maintainer of this driver, and I've never heard > from you. That's true. My information from http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2005-January/001630.html is outdated in that case. Sorry for the confusion. > >We are looking on several servers and variants to replace the broken=20 > >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. >=20 > The MPT and AMR cards are not equivalent. Which of those both would you recommened to use? > >Though, still not sure whether the dell pe2950 will not be the cause for > >new errors. >=20 > The Dell 2950 platform works very well with FreeBSD. Ok, so I think we'll order one of those and migrate our mailserver to that machine, so we've more time to debug the AHD issues without the problem that the productive system is freezing. Sincerly Nico --=20 Think about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). http://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/foss/the-term-foss/ PGP: BFE4 C736 ABE5 406F 8F42 F7CF B8BE F92A 9885 188C --/Uq4LBwYP4y1W6pO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZ+IEuL75KpiFGIwRAnYRAJsHPL3KIpCJKzWQq7XLip7YtS4d5gCg6k+i TzpSYZfJ9Dmpsgqv/8dtP4s= =FubA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/Uq4LBwYP4y1W6pO--