anyone successfully using an icp-vortex / iir controller?

[V. T. Mueller]

Hello,

Scott Long schrieb:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:13:56AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> I run an IIR controller on one of our servers just fine ... 4GB of 
>>> RAM, FreeBSD 4.x ... haven't tried 6.x on it yet ...
>> It's known to be broken on any system with >4GB of RAM.
> I'll strengthen that statement and say that it is completely, 100% 
> unusable with 4GB of RAM or more.  You are guaranteed to get data 
> corruption on the second I/O that you send.  Fixing this requires
> re-writing much of the driver, unfortunately.

If this is true - and I think so, I wasted a lot of time on it 
already - so why isn't there a little piece of documentation 
speaking out a warning. We've been happily using a large number of 
GDT controllers under FreeBSD for years after we have had a couple 
of bad experiences with other brands.

One of those, a mylex 160lp was just tested to be unfunctional with 
6.1b2 (8GB RAM), too.

Are there any *good* SCSI RAID controllers out there that are known 
to be working in server setups (amd64, SMP, >4GB RAM)?

When thinking it over, I guess I have to be grateful that over many 
years I never experienced s/th that made me question the "The Power 
To Serve" slogan. What I really feel unhappy about right now is that 
there was no information available so I could take appropriate 
measures in order to avoid the current situation (at least none that 
I could find).

Well, what's the plan regarding the iir driver now? I would suspect 
that letting folks rendering their servers unfunctional by upgrading 
memory is not really a good strategy.

The manpage lists two authors/maintainers, I emailed both early this 
week. Achim Leubner will be back from vacation the 27th. So maybe he 
can contribute s/th constructive.

Kind regards,
vt