From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 14:15:26 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 C0F6916A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:15:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165D243D45 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:15:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ma+fscsi@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1])E8A34328B4 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:14:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB667C0F18 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:14:18 +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 19421-03 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:14:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id D253AC0F17; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:14:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:14:17 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040702141417.GB18830@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org References: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> <6.1.2.0.2.20040630092141.02c54ec0@mail.distrust.net> <20040702140650.GA41797@mail.distrust.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040702140650.GA41797@mail.distrust.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at m2a2.dyndns.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: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:15:26 -0000 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)