Current favorite FC HBA?

[Matthew Jacob]

> We exclusively use Qlogic 2342's for our FC HBAs.  Works great,
> modulo some minor hacks we had to put into isp(4) to deal with some
> insanely braindead JBODs (sure, we'll advertise every disk on luns
> 0-255 ....).  Very heavy-duty IO environment, too.

The 234X will be EOL'd I hear by the end of the year.

>
> Now, if someone(tm) would produce a decent JBOD solution that provide
> 2*2Gbps FCAL to a 3U 16-bay U160/U320 SCSI box, I'd be insanely
> happy.  SATA just doesn't cut it for that particular part of our
> application, and full-blown FCAL drives are stupidly expensive.
>

SCSI drives aren't that much cheaper.