I20 disk driver, etc.. Should I use?

[Markus Lidel]

Hello,

Bob Gustafson wrote:
> I noticed that my current disk drivers are deprecated - use I20...
> I ran across a note a FAQ and a HOWTO on installing i20 disk driver
> support. I think I have a compatible SCSI adapter and disks.
> I guess the big questions are:
> 
> 1) will I get any benefit from using i20 (i.e., faster, safer, more disk
> fail info, etc.)

There are some benchmarks on http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/benchmark.php.

> 3) does smartd info work through i20 ?

Yep it works. You could monitor each disk using the i2o_scsi module. 
AFAIK this isn't possible with dpt_i2o...



Best regards,


Markus Lidel
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