Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:14:17 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <ma+fscsi@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted Message-ID: <20040702141417.GB18830@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20040702140650.GA41797@mail.distrust.net> References: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> <6.1.2.0.2.20040630092141.02c54ec0@mail.distrust.net> <m33c4df2y8.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040702140650.GA41797@mail.distrust.net>
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On Fri, 02 Jul 2004, David Sze wrote: > > 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). > > I can see how my message was ambiguous - I only meant the "mpt" driver (hence > the part in brackets), the 53c1030 for sure, don't know about the 53c1020. It's a bit unfortunate that the LSI stuff is now unmaintained in FreeBSD, I'd considered running FreeBSD on a MegaRAID-based server but given that the megaraid driver is not actually maintained either, that hardware is with Linux currently. > > That might be a matter of the BIOS in question. > > Perhaps, but consider that there are no problems with more than one of any > other brand of drive. Just look at the archives: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004638.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004640.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004689.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2003-October/000770.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-November/004924.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2003-December/000871.html > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-August/015092.html > > Until the "mpt" driver gets an active FreeBSD maintainer, I'd stay away from > it in combination with Hitachi/IBM drives. That sounds a bit different from staying away from LSI though :-) -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)
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