I see on the supported hardware list (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ 6.2R/hardware-amd64.html) there are 4 LSI fibre channel cards supported by the mpt(4) driver. However, over on LSI's web site (http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/ index.html) the fibre cards they are currently selling have rather different looking part numbers. Are the supported cards no longer made? Or did they just rename them? Are there any other fibre channel cards supported on FreeBSD? What card would one recommend to connect to an external RAID array for running a fairly busy database (several million inserts/selects/ updates per day)? Thanks!
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:44:48PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote..> I see on the supported hardware list (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ > 6.2R/hardware-amd64.html) there are 4 LSI fibre channel cards > supported by the mpt(4) driver. However, over on LSI's web site > (http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/ > index.html) the fibre cards they are currently selling have rather > different looking part numbers. > > Are the supported cards no longer made? Or did they just rename them? > > Are there any other fibre channel cards supported on FreeBSD?Yes, from Qlogic. See isp(4) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
> Are there any other fibre channel cards supported on FreeBSD? > > What card would one recommend to connect to an external RAID array > for running a fairly busy database (several million inserts/selects/ > updates per day)?I've tried qlogic's 2310 and haven't had any issue with those. I did recompile the kernel and included ispfw which is commented out by default in GENERIC. I don't know whether they perform better or worse than hba's from LSI. regards Claus
Maybe someone could help me. I have a machine with 4GB of RAM 128MB of which is wasted and i really need 2 gigs more. This is a heavy duty production server with a lot of jails and custom scripts, etc.. and i am afraid i cannot reinstall all from scratch. Furthermore it is located in the data center away from the office and i simply cannot spend whoel day there, but 2-4 hours would be ok. Currentlyt it is 5.4-STABLE (i386, 32bit architecture) Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? Any recomendations? -- Regards Artem