From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 16:23:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE58916A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from beck.quonix.net (dns1.quonix.net [146.145.66.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEA843D5D for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Received: from essenz.com (pcp04571733pcs.neave01.pa.comcast.net [68.80.46.122]) by beck.quonix.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0S0MpEv066425 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:22:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:17:44 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: John Von Essen To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <54287.68.3.131.72.1075243901.squirrel@mail.asn.net> Message-Id: <64E26D1C-5127-11D8-B6F7-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-SpamAssassin-Score: 0/6 () X-MimeDefang: beck.quonix.net X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Subject: Re: Adaptec's raidutil (asr-utils), 2010S and 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:23:11 -0000 Thats sucks. A guess its a good thing I never liked zero-channel RAID, or better yet, Supermicro. -john On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 05:51 PM, Kris Gale wrote: >> I have no justification to work on ASR during paid hours, and it >> doesn't >> interest me enough to work on it in my free time. I and others here >> in >> my office feel somewhat guilty that the ASR code has languished so >> much, >> but it really is beyond our means to do more with it. If it was >> just a matter of fixing a few bugs, it would be a different >> matter. Unfortunately, making the ASR driver and tools work well >> requires more than just a few hours of random work. However, all of >> the >> source is available for someone to pick up and run with. > > I disagree that it's not in Adaptec's interests. I've based my whole > network around SuperMicro servers that support the ASR-based 0-channel > RAID cards, because they were supported and had a command-line tool > available on FreeBSD 4.x systems. Since I know I'm going to need KSE > and > other features of 5.x, this is a huge problem for me. I know I'm not > alone in this. > > I just purchased 28 new servers, all with ASR-based 0-channel RAID > cards, > with the intention of installing 5-CURRENT on all of them. D'oh. > Even if > I move to different hardware (and therefore a different CLI), I already > have many monitoring and alert systems built around raidutil that I'd > have > to rewrite or modify. It also eliminates many of the primary reasons I > buy those SuperMicro systems, with their neat, pre-run, custom cables, > integrated SCSI controllers, etc. > > I'm sure there's more people on this list in a similar bind, so can you > make any suggestions about who we can contact at Adaptec to let them > know > that we really do use this hardware, and that we do indeed purchase it > based on the availability of the configuration/monitoring CLI? > > I really wish I could take you up on the suggestion that someone run > with > the existing source code, but I'm much more of a perl guy than a C > hacker. > > Kris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > John Von Essen (john@essenz.com) President, Essenz Consulting (www.essenz.com) Phone: (800) 248-1736 Fax: (800) 852-3387