Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:25:53 -0400 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: "'Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC'" <chad@shire.net>, "'Nikolas Britton'" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <20060726032544.4CA2643D70@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E7AB8B71-C49E-4480-9045-89462E63C319@shire.net>
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>=20 > On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: >=20 > > > > ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't=20 > support FreeBSD. > > We've already been over this once. >=20 > Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put new drivers for 5.3=20 > and 5.4 for their 2420, 2820, 2320SLP, 2130SLP, and=20 > 4800/4805SAS driver back in April 06 up on their website. >=20 > Their support could be a lot better, but these are new cards=20 > and new FreeBSD drivers... There is no storage manager=20 > aaccli like there was earlier :-( (maybe a Linux one,=20 > assuming there is one, will work like the Linux aaccli=20 > program works on FreeBSD?) >=20 I've 2130SLP and the drivers Adaptec posted caused server reboots almost = immediately, the documentation were lacking (device name has changed = which would cause a failed boot) and as you said aaccli is not working, = not even the new linux ASM. On that point, do you still have the linux aaccli file ? I've been = looking for it with no luck. Just updated the 2130SLP firmware and its = no longer accepting the aaccli utility. Advise.....stay away from Adaptec on FreeBSD and especially RAID = controllers.
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