Management interface for cards powered by the "mfi" driver?

[Vivek Khera]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:15 AM, Karl Denninger wrote:

> No management tool = el-sucko, because you can't rebuild a failed  
> disk or
> even shut the alarm on the board off!

This is precisely the reason I have dropped using Adaptec  
controllers.  The most recent ones cannot be managed with the FreeBSD  
tools.

What I've ended up using is LSI Fibre Channel 4Gb cards (PCI-e for  
newer servers, but I have two with PCI-x) attached to an external RAID  
box.  My external RAIDs are custom built by Partners Data Systems and  
use an Areca controller.  All configuration and monitoring is done via  
web interface over ethernet so no proprietary software is needed.   
They fully support FreeBSD too.