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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:59:10 +0100
From:      Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
To:        Tom Daly <tom@dyn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serious Dell Sadness - H200, H700, and H800
Message-ID:  <A1BA1994-91A7-4B4C-A5A2-F189321A5748@sarenet.es>
In-Reply-To: <26637128.32.1295492690175.JavaMail.tom@Tom-Dalys-MacBook-Pro.local>
References:  <26637128.32.1295492690175.JavaMail.tom@Tom-Dalys-MacBook-Pro.local>

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On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Tom Daly wrote:

> Disk throughput is being tested using Bonnie++. IO performance on =
FreeBSD 8.1 vs. Debian Squeeze seems to be about 25% better, FWIW, on =
the <2TB RAID volumes.
>=20
> Any thoughts, anyone?

I'm finding Dell increasingly annoying by the hour. I have a couple of =
machines with the dreaded H700 adapter, up to date firmware, and I have =
had a couple of freezes due to the "mfi timeout issue".

Worse, I don't really need those crappy RAID adapters, I just want =
direct access to the disks. (I use ZFS)

Now I'm trying the H200 cards, which seem to work well with the mps =
driver I've taken from 9-CURRENT.





Borja.




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