Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 07:57:45 -0700 From: Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Functional RAID controller? Message-ID: <9FC464A4-4405-4C10-A7CB-0A424EA4EAD3@blyon.com>
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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@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? -Barrett
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