Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[Tamouh H.]

> 
> On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> 
> >
> > ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't 
> support FreeBSD.
> > We've already been over this once.
> 
> Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put new drivers for 5.3 
> and 5.4 for their 2420, 2820, 2320SLP, 2130SLP, and 
> 4800/4805SAS driver back in April 06 up on their website.
> 
> Their support could be a lot better, but these are new cards 
> and new FreeBSD drivers...  There is no storage manager 
> aaccli like there was earlier :-( (maybe a Linux one, 
> assuming there is one, will work like the Linux aaccli 
> program works on FreeBSD?)
> 

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.