From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 28 16:16:09 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 886AB16A408 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:16:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BF043D46 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:16:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F58290C20; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:16:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25257-08; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BC6290C1E; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:16:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 645C248E2A; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:16:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C8F3C36C; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:16:04 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:16:04 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Francisco Reyes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060628131353.R1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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, 28 Jun 2006 16:16:09 -0000 On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Marc G. Fournier writes: > >> settled on HP Proliant servers . > > The problem with HP, as I see it, is that they "officially" do not support > freebsd.. I even sent an email to ask.. and the categorically stated that it > is not supported. > > I would not want to standarize on something which is not guaranted will work > in the future with FreeBSD. the problem is that none of the Tier 1 hardware manufacturer's support FreeBSD, and a growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / Intel) appear to be dropping support for it as well ... Intel as an example, you can get storcon to manage the RAID controllers for both FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x, but they've not done similar for 6.x, which means I'm now "blind" on my RAIDs ... With HP, at least, the ciss driver is smart enough to provide me with health info on my RAID controller, and I have the ability to manage everything remotely through iLO ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664