From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 14:57:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B4216A403 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 14:57:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from blyon@blyon.com) Received: from util2.sjc1.bitgravity.com (util2.sjc1.bitgravity.com [208.67.233.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDA613C45B for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 14:57:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from blyon@blyon.com) Received: from c-69-181-166-240.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([69.181.166.240] helo=[192.168.1.6]) by util2.sjc1.bitgravity.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HlR9d-0005Qp-5P for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 May 2007 07:59:05 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <9FC464A4-4405-4C10-A7CB-0A424EA4EAD3@blyon.com> From: Barrett Lyon Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 07:57:45 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Functional RAID controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 14:57:46 -0000 I've been using HEAD with 3ware adapters and all of my test machines are completely non-functional. I had my team working directly with 3ware for two weeks and they offered a tip here and there. Ultimately we ended up with a non-functioning systems and a good idea what's wrong with the twa driver. I offered to help fund and provide hardware for a development effort to update their driver to support HEAD but they refused to help. I am worried about 3ware's commitment to the future of FreeBSD and the twa driver at this point, 3ware is not the least bit concerned (even with a large customer): > From: xxx@amcc.com > Subject: RE: 3ware driver issues-Machine to be dropped at 3ware > Date: May 7, 2007 5:14:04 PM PDT > > Good Afternoon. Sorry for the delay in getting back to everyone. We > have been discussing this internally, and ultimately BSD 7 is > unreleased, unstable OS at this time. > > I am sorry, but this is not something we can put resources in at this > time and if you bring a systems here, it could not be worked on right > away either. It would be weeks/months before we can work on this... I would like to find a SATA RAID controller that plays nice by a company that is FreeBSD friendly and progressively working on their drivers. Does anyone have any suggestions other than to not use the 7.0 branch? -Barrett