Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:07:05 -0500 From: "Chuck O'Donnell" <cao@bus.net> To: Kurt Seel <kseel@utcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buslogic bt958 Message-ID: <19990318200704.B27547@milf18.bus.net> In-Reply-To: <36F18A72.CCF75506@utcorp.com>; from Kurt Seel on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 06:21:22PM -0500 References: <36F18A72.CCF75506@utcorp.com>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 06:21:22PM -0500, Kurt Seel wrote: > > Is the bt 958 still a viable card? I have a couple and would like to > use them in my webserver. I am looking for _performance_, would I be > better off with an adaptek 2940UW? > I want to run a stripe across 2 or 3 cheetah's > I just set up two new servers using the BT-958: bt0: <Buslogic Multi-Master SCSI Host Adapter> rev 0x08 ... bt0: BT-958 FW Rev. 5.07B Ultra Wide SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 192 CCBs I've had some trouble with errors related to the tagged queuing. Doesn't seem to be a show stopper, as you can add a quirk entry to abate the problem. See thread "error messages from bt driver" in the scsi archives (last week?). I haven't done any performance testing, I guess I was more interested in reliability. On a side note, I've never had a stitch of trouble from the Adaptec 2940's. Thanks. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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