by > it boils down to this: freebsd will never work properly with dpt
> controllers. you can hack it 'til you die; but you'll eventually choose
> one or the other. i chose dpt and fell back on old familiar linux. i've
> operated three servers (with non-dpt canisters/cables et cetera) for a
> year now with all of six* minutes downtime.
original message, and this topic is of concern for me.
As per the comment at the page
http://www.veryComputer.com/~neuffer/scsi/dpt/freebsd.html
"The FreeBSD driver will soon be available
The version 3.0 of the EATA-DMA driver is currently under development."
I've e-mailed the author of this webpage a couple of times now without
response yet regarding the "soon" to be available driver. In our case, I
will not fall-back to Linux, as I don't trust it as a production NFS
server. I DO trust FreeBSD, however, and would very much like to see high
quality, high-performance DPT Caching/RAID SCSI controllers supported.
Anyone else care to comment?
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Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln