From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 22:07:58 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 9C4B916A403 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 22:07:58 +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 3C93813C48A for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 22:07:58 +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 l48M7pS7004154; Tue, 8 May 2007 16:07:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4640F4B0.7030307@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 16:07:44 -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: Rainer Duffner References: <9FC464A4-4405-4C10-A7CB-0A424EA4EAD3@blyon.com> <4640A30C.10008@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <4640A30C.10008@ultra-secure.de> 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 16:07:52 -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, Barrett Lyon 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 22:07:58 -0000 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