From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 10:54:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E2437B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.andrewpea.com (mail.andrewpea.com [216.43.26.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A4A43F75 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pea@andrewpea.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.andrewpea.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.andrewpea.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388962FAA9 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 12:46:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.10.11] (bruce.andrewpea.com [192.168.10.11]) by mail.andrewpea.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4C42FAA7 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 12:46:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:53:52 -0500 From: Bruce Pea To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <19969754.1054126432@[192.168.10.11]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; FORMAT=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Subject: 3Ware Support for FreeBSD (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:54:45 -0000 After reading MikeM's post to 3Ware I also emailed a comment. Below is the reply I received from David Graas, 3Ware Inside Sales Manager. If you use, or know anyone using, 3Ware products I encourage you to send David a note. bp ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:21 AM -0700 From: David Graas To: 'Bruce Pea' Subject: RE: 3Ware Support for FreeBSD Bruce, thanks for the input. Honestly, coming from the sales team we need more input like yours to help justify the development of FreeBSD within 3ware. If you know of any other large FreeBSD customers using 3ware please have them write in to us. Regards, David Graas 3ware Inside Sales Manager 408-523-1036 direct 650-269-2972 cell 408-523-1001 fax dgraas@3ware.com www.3ware.com -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Pea [mailto:pea@andrewpea.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:47 AM To: C.T. Chu Cc: David Graas Subject: 3Ware Support for FreeBSD Dear C. T. Chu, I read a reply you recently sent to MikeM regarding 3Ware support for FreeBSD. We have been using your excellent products in our FreeBSD servers for the past several years. We manage and administer approximately 230 servers, all of them using 3Ware raid cards. When we first starting using your products (5000 Series) we would have to be less than truthful with your tech support staff (tell them we were using linux) just to get them to talk with us. Fortunately we now have a significant amount of experience with your products that we don't have to rely on your tech support people so much anymore (but when we do we still have to tell them we're using linux... ). We would love to have current drivers and even more, device management utilities. I urge you to please give FreeBSD support very serious consideration. And give us some love man, the FreeBSD crowd is one of your biggest supporters. Thank you for your consideration and for making such a fine product! Bruce Pea, President Andrew Pea, Inc. Champaign, IL 217-398-4698 pea@andrewpea.com ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------