fibre channel cards

[Matthew Jacob]

Generally speaking, the LSI-Logic cards are faster, at least for 2Gb,
in terms of IOPS.

However, the LSI-Logic firmware is less capable of coping with
complicated topologies and the mpt(4) driver is less mature than
isp(4).

Another thing to keep in mind is that for new cards (as opposed to
'EBay' cards) that LSI is half the port cost of QLogic.

On 3/8/07, Claus Guttesen <kometen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
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