From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 15:49:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D8F37B401 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 15:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5993E43FA3 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 15:49:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zlists@mgm51.com) Received: from winbloat (winbloat.24cl.home [10.0.1.10]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE3A29437 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 18:49:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <200305271849090291.00774C19@sentry.24cl.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (4) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:49:09 -0400 From: "MikeM" To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Subject: 3Ware - a light? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:49:11 -0000 Last week I sent an email off to the Sales team at 3Ware asking them about support for their IDE RAID controllers on FreeBSD. Today I received the following reply: ================================= Mike, FreeBSD is not currently supported by 3ware directly. However I did contact our Product Manager on this issue and his response is below. You can contact him for more details if needed. Regards, David Graas 3ware Inside Sales Manager Mike I'm new to 3ware. So please bear with me while I get acclimated to the product history as well as the support history with the BSD community. One of the items I'm working on now to investigate bringing back BSD support for current and next-gen controllers. I will also prioritize between the various flavors of BSD (Free, Net and Open), based on the near-term and long-term revenue potential. I'm also evaluating the pros and cons of having this done in-house or community-maintained. That being said, you need to know that this is not a short-term, quick turnaround project. 3ware really needs a BSD business plan. I don't want this to be simply an open source device driver project. In my mind, a full O/S support for a RAID controller is a package of device driver, configuration tool, management tools and documentation. Mike, you also need to know that I am looking at this investigation without any regard to legacy products. This means that if my project moves forward, it will not support the older 6000 series. Our firmware code, from my understanding, changed significantly that it will be extremely difficult to incorporate support for the 6000 series. Regards, C. T. Chu Product Marketing Manager 3ware, Inc. 408.523.1090 cchu@3ware.com ===========================================