Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:20:46 -0500 From: Jason Crawford <jasonrcrawford@gmail.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support Message-ID: <5d6838280503191620387146c6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8d1ffb5ad4233d7ca6499fb2c72c38db@mac.com> References: <423C90AB.9030105@samsco.org> <200503192219.j2JMJDb6025915@cvs.openbsd.org> <5d683828050319160171ca7627@mail.gmail.com> <8d1ffb5ad4233d7ca6499fb2c72c38db@mac.com>
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I fail to see how this "FUD check" email has anything to do with the fact that Scott locked all freebsd users to Adaptec's binary-only management utility, which means the user IS NOT FREE to change something on it to either work better, fix a bug, add a feature, or just experiment, as well as just develop/use a different management utility. This is not FUD, but fact. An unacceptable fact. Talking about how other raid controllers work with FreeBSD too has nothing to do with what I said, except that they too are binary-only no-free-documenation vendors at this point as well. On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:15:20 -0500, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Jason Crawford wrote: > > FreeBSD users.. also watch how Scott claims he is about freedom of > > choice, yet proceeded to lock you into only one option for a RAID > > card, which would seem to be anti-choice... and being pro-choice would > > have pushed for open docs a long time ago. > > FUD check: > > FreeBSD works quite well with RAID products from 3ware, Promise, and > Highpoint to my direct knowledge, as well as Adaptec's, and I've seen > dmesg's on had accounts on systems using Mylex and LSI controllers. I > am not as sure about the Qlogic and DPT brands. > > Things aren't perfect-- I lost a 4-disk * 120GB RAID-10 array on a > HPT-370 about a year ago, and was very fortunate to have had good > backups, but I can't truly blame FreeBSD's ATA/RAID implementation, > since I'd used the HPT BIOS to do the rebuild rather than atacontrol. > > Next time I'll buy a 3ware or Promise card, though, not use a MB-based > HPT controller... > > -- > -Chuck > >
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