From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 28 21:54:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38DF416A47B for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:54:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6650A449BD for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:54:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1Fvhzf-000EWF-L2; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:54:43 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20060628184537.R1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060628131353.R1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060628184537.R1114@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <363D9F6E-E373-494A-A340-667FBBF30CF0@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:54:42 -0600 To: Marc G. Fournier X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:54:45 -0000 On Jun 28, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: > >> Marc G. Fournier writes: >> >>> the problem is that none of the Tier 1 hardware manufacturer's >>> support FreeBSD, and a growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / >>> Intel) appear to be dropping support for it as well ... >> >> But companies like 3Ware and Areca are supporting it and from what >> I see on the lists, people are voting with their money in their >> favor. > > The problem is that 3Ware and Areca, I believe, are SATA > vendors ... what I'm trying to do is keep to one 'integrated > environment / vendor', and stick with SCSI ... Areca has, or is coming out with, an SAS controller according to some email I had with them last Fall Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net