Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:55:44 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Simon <simon@optinet.com> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>, "hardware@freebsd.org" <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RAID Cards Message-ID: <42C51320.2050704@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050630204448.8DF9443D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050630204448.8DF9443D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Simon wrote: >Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of support, doesn't >mean the card itself is bad. > You wouldn't be saying that if you had had one of your RAIDed drives fail and had no indication whatsoever that it had done so. IMHO, OS level monitoring of a RAID is vital. >The sad fact is most manufacturers don't receive enough FreeBSD demand to >support it :-( I wish and keep waiting for this to change one day. I would be very >happy then, but until then... > > The sad fact is that most manufacturers are not prepared to release enough information about their boards for a native CLI to be written. Even a source code Linux driver would significantly aid a FreeBSD version, but most manufacturer's prefer to keep their dirty secrets hidden. --Alex
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