Functional RAID controller?
Rainer Duffner
rainer at ultra-secure.de
Tue May 8 16:46:11 UTC 2007
Barrett Lyon wrote:
> I've been using HEAD with 3ware adapters and all of my test machines
> are completely non-functional. I had my team working directly with
> 3ware for two weeks and they offered a tip here and there.
> Ultimately we ended up with a non-functioning systems and a good idea
> what's wrong with the twa driver.
>
> I offered to help fund and provide hardware for a development effort
> to update their driver to support HEAD but they refused to help. I am
> worried about 3ware's commitment to the future of FreeBSD and the twa
> driver at this point, 3ware is not the least bit concerned (even with
> a large customer):
>
>> From: xxx at amcc.com
>> Subject: RE: 3ware driver issues-Machine to be dropped at 3ware
>> Date: May 7, 2007 5:14:04 PM PDT
>>
>> Good Afternoon. Sorry for the delay in getting back to everyone. We
>> have been discussing this internally, and ultimately BSD 7 is
>> unreleased, unstable OS at this time.
>>
>> I am sorry, but this is not something we can put resources in at this
>> time and if you bring a systems here, it could not be worked on right
>> away either. It would be weeks/months before we can work on this...
>
> I would like to find a SATA RAID controller that plays nice by a
> company that is FreeBSD friendly and progressively working on their
> drivers. Does anyone have any suggestions other than to not use the
> 7.0 branch?
I don't think there are a lot of companies who do care about FreeBSD7
(or FreeBSD at all).
For many, it's rather a nuisance (from my perspective). They only
support it, because a significant portion of their sales depends on it.
Can anybody make a statement about the status of the Areca driver?
Because that's the only other non-SCSI controller I know that is worth
having.
I think some of the higher-end MSI-controllers are also good. And of
course, the HP P600 and P800 controllers - but to fully make use of
those two, you need a special enclosure anyway....
cheers,
Rainer
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