13 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-scsiHitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Marc G. Fournier | Jun 29, 2004 11:11 am | |
| Jason A. Crome | Jun 29, 2004 11:22 am | |
| randall ehren | Jun 29, 2004 11:23 am | |
| Scott T. Smith | Jun 29, 2004 11:29 am | |
| Jason A. Crome | Jun 29, 2004 11:38 am | |
| Don Lewis | Jun 29, 2004 12:07 pm | |
| Samuel Clements | Jun 29, 2004 12:11 pm | |
| Erich Dollansky | Jun 29, 2004 9:47 pm | |
| Ion-Mihai Tetcu | Jun 30, 2004 4:31 am | |
| David Sze | Jun 30, 2004 6:30 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jun 30, 2004 8:50 am | |
| David Sze | Jul 2, 2004 7:10 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jul 2, 2004 7:15 am |
| Subject: | Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted | |
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| From: | David Sze (ds...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca) | |
| Date: | Jul 2, 2004 7:10:07 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-scsi | |
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:03:27PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
David Sze <ds...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
If you will be using a motherboard with an LSI Logic chipset (mpt driver under FreeBSD), definitely do _not_ get Hitachi/IBM drives.
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.
There's a weird interaction that causes the OS not to boot if there is more than one Hitachi drive attached to an mpt controller. A single drive works fine.
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.