Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted

[Matthias Andree]

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 :-)

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