Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:06:50 -0500 From: David Sze <dsze@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> To: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted Message-ID: <20040702140650.GA41797@mail.distrust.net> In-Reply-To: <m33c4df2y8.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> <6.1.2.0.2.20040630092141.02c54ec0@mail.distrust.net> <m33c4df2y8.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:03:27PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > David Sze <dsze@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.
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