From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 15:50:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC75416A4CE; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:50:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (mail.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B0543D5A; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:50:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1])480D619F09; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:49:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED55CC1BCD; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:03:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08532-04; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:03:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id EA925C1BCB; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:03:27 +0200 (CEST) To: David Sze In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040630092141.02c54ec0@mail.distrust.net> (David Sze's message of "Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:30:04 -0400") References: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> <6.1.2.0.2.20040630092141.02c54ec0@mail.distrust.net> From: Matthias Andree Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:03:27 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at m2a2.dyndns.org cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:50:32 -0000 David Sze writes: > If you will be using a motherboard with an LSI Logic chipset (mpt driver > under FreeBSD), definitely do _not_ get Hitachi/IBM drives. There's more than one LSI chipset (there are at least the sym, mpt and amr cards, sym for 53c8xx and 53c1010, mpt for 53c1020 and 53c1030, AMR for MegaRAID stuff). > There's a weird interaction that causes the OS not to boot if there is > more than one Hitachi drive attached to an mpt controller. A single > drive works fine. That might be a matter of the BIOS in question. -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)