From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 02:54:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 66A2E16A4DA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EC643D64 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:54:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1G5ZXE-000413-9U; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:54:08 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <20060713181058.56349.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <002101c6af09$aacf32f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <003301c6afbb$4f1291c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20060725200328.R17979@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:54:06 -0600 To: Nikolas Britton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:54:09 -0000 On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. > We've already been over this once. Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put new drivers for 5.3 and 5.4 for their 2420, 2820, 2320SLP, 2130SLP, and 4800/4805SAS driver back in April 06 up on their website. Their support could be a lot better, but these are new cards and new FreeBSD drivers... There is no storage manager aaccli like there was earlier :-( (maybe a Linux one, assuming there is one, will work like the Linux aaccli program works on FreeBSD?) So there is a very low level of support from Adaptec... They should really give their drivers to the project as part of the source and support them as well... That is why I am using Areca now. They seem to support both FreeBSD and Solaris 10 much better than Adaptec. I haven't bought an Adaptec card in 2 years though because their stuff gave me a lot of problems and didn't perform that well... Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net