From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 17:32:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A411065687; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:32:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from constantine.ticketswitch.com (constantine.ticketswitch.com [IPv6:2002:57e0:1d4e:1::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7950A8FC0C; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:32:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from dilbert.rattatosk ([10.64.50.6] helo=dilbert.ticketswitch.com) by constantine.ticketswitch.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Kp4nd-0000Mt-7S; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:32:13 +0100 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.ticketswitch.com with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Kp4nd-000CX9-5S; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:32:13 +0100 To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de, scottl@samsco.org In-Reply-To: <48F22245.1030201@samsco.org> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:32:13 +0100 Cc: koitsu@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:32:15 -0000 > Sorry for not responding back in Jan. I have a hard time recommending > the 29320/39320 cards because of the long history they have with > incompatibilities with certain U320 drives. I don't think that the Out of interest, what cards would you recommend ? I have just started running 4 drives off a 29320, and it does the "dump" thing on boot, so I was thinking of replacing it with another PCI-X card. > driver will be affected by memory size, but I haven't run it in several > years, and it could have rotted like ahc apparently did (though I still > have a hard time imagining how the rot could have taken place, hardly > anything has changed in the driver over the years). I have a hard time beliving these don't work either - mainly because I am running a 4GB system with ahc (and now ahd) in it and have had no problems at all. Certainly Adaptec cards are so common that if there was something majorly broken in that driver we would be seeing a lot more reports of corruption surely ? -pete.