From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 22:05:23 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 B78DF16A406 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 22:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7243713C469 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 22:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l48M5G9h004143; Tue, 8 May 2007 16:05:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4640F414.6070301@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 16:05:08 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barrett Lyon References: <9FC464A4-4405-4C10-A7CB-0A424EA4EAD3@blyon.com> In-Reply-To: <9FC464A4-4405-4C10-A7CB-0A424EA4EAD3@blyon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Tue, 08 May 2007 16:05:16 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:05:23 -0000 Barrett Lyon wrote: > 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? The following companies have SATA RAID controllers that work well with FreeBSD. Most of these companies also have staff that actively work on FreeBSD drivers and apps, and are thus motivated to help people with problems: Areca LSI HP (CISS) Adaptec Highpoint Scott