Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 16:07:44 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com> Subject: Re: Functional RAID controller? Message-ID: <4640F4B0.7030307@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4640A30C.10008@ultra-secure.de> References: <9FC464A4-4405-4C10-A7CB-0A424EA4EAD3@blyon.com> <4640A30C.10008@ultra-secure.de>
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Rainer Duffner wrote: > 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? > > > I don't think there are a lot of companies who do care about FreeBSD7 > (or FreeBSD at all). That was true in the past, but is much less true now. Areca, HighPoint, and Adaptec are showing a high amount of interesting FreeBSD these days. > For many, it's rather a nuisance (from my perspective). They only > support it, because a significant portion of their sales depends on it. > Can anybody make a statement about the status of the Areca driver? It works very well. > Because that's the only other non-SCSI controller I know that is worth > having. See my previous email. I would recommend each of those companies; some have strengths in certain attributes over others, but they all tend to work well with FreeBSD. Scott
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