From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 10:03:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F9F16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:03:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C4343D1D for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:03:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@otterycomputers.com) Received: from dsl-80-46-175-162.access.uk.tiscali.com ([80.46.175.162]:60647 helo=postman.oocltd.dom) by mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BRDQh-000Nql-HJ; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:31 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postman.oocltd.dom (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536388B9; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from postman.oocltd.dom ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postman.oocltd.dom [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00196-06-2; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from postman.oocltd.dom (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postman.oocltd.dom (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5DC8B4; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:20 +0100 (BST) Received: (from www@localhost) by postman.oocltd.dom (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i4LH3KOD003006; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from adam@otterycomputers.com) X-Authentication-Warning: postman.oocltd.dom: www set sender to adam@otterycomputers.com using -f Received: from 81.168.113.220 ([81.168.113.220]) by oocltd.gotdns.org (IMP) with HTTP for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1085158999.40ae3658007ba@oocltd.gotdns.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:20 +0100 From: adam@otterycomputers.com To: Patrick Hurrelmann References: <003301c43f36$a78c7340$0b02a8c0@justin> <40AE18E8.90302@outi.echsi.de> <40AE1A29.8080300@outi.echsi.de> <1085153225.40ae1fc973ff9@192.168.0.253> <40AE2906.20304@bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <40AE2906.20304@bytephobia.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.3 / FreeBSD-4.9 X-Originating-IP: 81.168.113.220 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at otterycomputers.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID 5 Adapters and FreeBSD 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:03:36 -0000 Interestingly I emailed promises Europe and US Support departments and th= ey both gave me different and conflicting answers. Rather stupidly the european department seem to think that FreeBSD is som= e sort of linux distribution. Also the European department say that planned supp= ort for FreeBSD has been dropped by management whereas the US department say = that development for FreeBSD is currently under way!!! Crazy? Here is what the European department said - =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Hello mister Retter, Honestly, we took FreeBSD in the shedule to get drivers developed for thi= s, and created a manual, however management decided later that this linux distribution would not be supported. Thus we did not develop specific dri= ver for this model. We know that some linux enthousiast have developed drivers for this model= in Free BSD, but you have to check this in newsgroups. With kind regards, Mit freundlichen grussen, Met vriendelijke groet, Stefan Zegers Technical Support Engineer =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The US Support department said this - =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Hi FreeBSD driver for both controllers are still being developed and tested at this point. I don't have a date as of yet when driver will be out. I would recommend you not to purchase the controller until Promise have FreeBSD driver posted on our website. Thank you Promise Technology Inc 1745 McCandless Drives Milpitas CA, 95035 408-228-6400 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D So anyone know whats happening? Not me! Cheers Adam. > adam@otterycomputers.com wrote: > > Hmm well the cheepest 3ware RAID 5 SATA card is about =A3240 which is= like > =A3100 > > more than my budget would strecth too, shame those 3ware cards look r= eal > nice. > > Also I think they are 64bit pci, i only have 32bit pci :-( > > > > Im guessing that mmy best bet then is to get some sort of supported S= ATA > > controller and then to use Vinum on top to do the RAID stuff. Can any= one > make a > > well supported but under =A3140 recommendation. > > > > Shame coz those promise ones look wicked and fit my budget. > > Can anyone tell me how difficult it would be to develop a driver for = the > promise > > card, I have experience of C and C++ amongst others and am fairly > knowledgable > > about PC's and Hardware but have never had to look so low-level as wr= itting > a > > driver. > > > > Thanks Adam. > > > > I forgot to mention, that Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 (and SX4000) are > supported in 5.x CURRENT, but they use the ata-framework and no scsi. > Radi 5support will hit 5.x in future. Soeren Schmitt is working hard on > it. But it may take some time till this happens. I own a Promise > FastTrak S150 SX4 myself and i have killed my old raid5 array some days > ago. i now use 4x 120gb as raid 0+1 with ataraid. > > It's sad, that Promise still advertises his FastTrak SX4 with future > FreeBSD support. I spoke with an technician of Promise on Cebit 04. It'= s > highly unlikely that Promise itself will release any bsd drivers. They > have a linux-driver. I received a copy of it, too. Regrettably the > Promise driver is only partly open-source. I provided Soeren with one > copy, but he said it doesn't help him, as the relevant parts of the cod= e > are closed... > > > so, at the moment i'm running CURRENT with raid 0+1 on my Promise SX4 > till ataraid will handle raid5. Looking forward to that. > > Patrick > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.