Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:27:42 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI card used at cdrom.com? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809211822520.2991-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <199809210904.CAA10650@implode.root.com>
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I'd like to throw my question out again, with a bit more of a general slant to it: Does everyone find the adaptec 2940xxx to be reliable and stable? Since we've used the Buslogic for soooo long I just want some reassurances. I recall there were some issues in the past of Adaptec changing things around that broke certain things. Those that do run them, do you enable all of the "options" in your kernel? I'm convinced these are faster than the Buslogic, I just want to make sure the stability is there. We will not be using CAM until 3.0 has been out for a while and we upgrade to that... Any input is welcome! And to David, may I ask a bit about how you came to choose the Mylex raid controller over the CMD? We have pretty much settled on the CMD after many recommendations, but I'd like to hear some of your reasons for going with the Mylex... Thanks, Charles --- Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, David Greenman wrote: > >What SCSI controller is being used in the FreeBSD boxes at cdrom.com? > >We like to mirror what y'all use because if it performs there, we > >know it'll be great for us. > > > >We used to use Buslogic BT948's mostly (though we do have a news > >machine with Adaptec 2940's), but we want to get an ultra-wide > >controller and our vendor is telling us he can't locate Mylex's > >BT958's. > > I saw your followup that you found my "configuration" file regarding the > above. I should point out that the configuration will be changing soon when > we move to RAID 5 for all of the disk space. The new config will be a Mylex > DAC960SXI hanging off of a two channel AHA-3940AUW (which is aic-7895 based). > The Mylex SCSI-SCSI RAID controller has six SCSI busses - two will be > configured as host busses with the other four going to the disk drives. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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