Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:01:42 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: user <user@dhp.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: most rock solid SATA Raid card for 5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <43791756.2030206@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511141754560.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511141754560.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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user wrote: > Scott, > > thanks for your comments and help. > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Scott Long wrote: > > >>The updated aaccli is probably available from the Adaptec website and >>should work just fine with 5.4. The updated driver is only in 6.0 right >>now. Like I said above, I'll be updating the RELENG_5 code stream with >>it soon, so that if there is a 5.5 it will have it. That said, I'd >>highly recommend that you investigate 6.0 as it has many other >>improvements, and upgrading from 5.4 is very very easy. > > > > Understood. I will begin working with 6.0 immediately. From what I can > gether, the move from 5.x to 6.0 is very different than the move from 4.x > to 5.0 ... 6.0 seems to be more of a organic growth from 5.x, and is less > drastic and profound in its changes ? > > I ask because there is no way I would have gone production on 5.0-RELEASE > at the time, but now with 6.0-RELEASE I am hearing nothing but good and > reassuring things about it ... > > thanks. > Yes, everyone worked very very hard on 6.0, and the results are quite good. We are also trying to make development and releases more predictable and less surprising for users =-) Scott
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