From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 30 14:49:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0CC37B408 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 14:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E2DE5239A02; Thu, 30 May 2002 14:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:49:13 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Scott Long Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum Message-ID: <20020530214913.GE92646@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB04636E@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> <20020529134211.L82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020529141141.GC2262@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> <20020530090247.Y82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200205300016.g4U0GaBY064168@apollo.backplane.com> <010501c2079f$7b37bc80$64805718@cns> <20020530073031.GA3228@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wchHw8dVAp53YPj8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020530073031.GA3228@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Zer0 X-Purpose: For great justice! Mail-Copies-To: poster X-Message-Flag: Ditch this virus-ridden Outlook crap and get a real mailer! Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --wchHw8dVAp53YPj8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2002-05-30 01:30 -0600, Scott Long wrote: >=20 > The big problem is that while most companies can be persuaded > to share the specs on how to talk to the card and the arrays, > few will share the specs on the management interface that allows > you to control and monitor the thing. Adaptec is the only > one that I know of that produces FreeBSD versions of their > management apps, and they would never dream of publishing the > source code to them (except the for the asr controllers, but=20 > that's a different story). 3ware makes FreeBSD versions of their 3dm management daemon, although they're not very vocal about it. http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/ Greg --=20 Gregory S. Sutter Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm mailto:gsutter@zer0.org for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ be warm for the rest of his life.=20 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD --wchHw8dVAp53YPj8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: '' iD8DBQE89p5ZIBUx1YRd/t0RAqA3AJ4+Kv75Fx7RS46n5DoJeKBRG/nK9gCeOYw9 X+c0r0HjqzCQgonYRKu8CRI= =IYlV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wchHw8dVAp53YPj8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message