From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 07:18:31 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 416D337B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:18:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FD243F75 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4HEHsGE067963; Sat, 17 May 2003 16:17:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4HEHrKV067962; Sat, 17 May 2003 16:17:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:17:53 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: MikeM Message-ID: <20030517141753.GA67866@ei.bzerk.org> References: <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <200305170853080364.002CA283@sentry.24cl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305170853080364.002CA283@sentry.24cl.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted 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: Sat, 17 May 2003 14:18:31 -0000 On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:53:08AM -0400, MikeM typed: > On 5/16/2003 at 9:00 PM David Kelly wrote: > > |On Friday 16 May 2003 07:57 pm, Aaron Peterson wrote: > |[...] > |> > |> 1. There is better hardware support for linux, and more features > |> because there are more developers. > | > |Better hardware support? I don't confuse "support of more hardware" with > |the claim of "better hardware support." So what if by some chance > |FreeBSD doesn't support some oddball reverse-engineered proprietary 1x > |CDROM hardware interface that Linux supports? > ============= > > > In my experience, I had to switch my media server from FreeBSd to Linux due > to the lack of full support for the 3Ware IDE RAID card in FreeBSD. Really? I have a 3ware ATA RAID adapter which is working without any problems. Did you have device twe in your kernel? Ruben > I would have much preferred to keep the server in FreebSD due to the better > "coherency" of the BSD's. But I'm not going to put 320GB of media files > onto a server dependent upon a IDE controller that is not supported by the > OS. > > I would hardly call the 3Ware IDE RAID controllers "oddball". IDE RAID > arrays are presenting a valid, cost-effective alternative to the SCSI RAID > arrays in many implementations, especially once the serial-ATA drives start > shipping en masse. An excellent server OS like FreeBSD should provide > proper support for those controllers. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"