From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 13:09:57 2005 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 6901216A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:09:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (thunder.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF29A43D2D for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:09:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shanejp@netspace.net.au) Received: from [10.0.0.2] (dsl-202-45-125-5.NSW.netspace.net.au [202.45.125.5]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625A5428C5; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:09:44 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200503192043.j2JKhOxZ020031@cvs.openbsd.org> References: <200503192043.j2JKhOxZ020031@cvs.openbsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <1d1978898910d3cf384c3925bb70fe4d@netspace.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Shane J Pearson Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:09:43 +1100 To: Scott Long X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: Jason Crawford cc: misc@openbsd.org cc: Adam cc: Theo de Raadt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support 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: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:09:57 -0000 Hi Scott, On 20 Mar 2005, at 7:43 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > % file bin/aaccli > bin/aaccli: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, for > FreeBSD 4.4, statically linked, not stripped Is there a SPARC version? Even for FreeBSD? If I wanted to use these cards in one of my UltraSPARC machines, wouldn't I be kinda screwed? I presumably would not be able to use the built in BIOS management software since there's no x86 to execute it and I assume the bootable management CDROM will not be bootable on a SPARC? The thought of rebooting a machine to check and deal with the health of an array is bad enough, but if I had to move the card and disks to another machine with an x86 in it would be beyond ridiculous. I use and have mostly used in the past UltraSPARC and macppc in addition to x86 with OpenBSD. Wouldn't management open source code or documentation be my best option for expensive cards which I would be willing to buy if I could actually know about and be proactive with the arrays health? Shane J Pearson