https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198975 --- Comment #6 from Matthias Lippert (mae.lippert@xxxxxxxxx) --- highpoint has ABSOLUTLY no interest to integrate in-kernel drivers for the rocketraid 800er series. also the raid controller CANNOT boot from RAID 6, RAID 5 yes but no bootable RAID 6 arrays were supported! best of it it wasnt pointed out in their advertising, that only RAID 6 as a non-bootable data array is supported because of a small f*****g firmware bug which they dont wanna fix, but only delivering much lies AND excuses... i smell big fraud here! anyone interested taking part in a US-based class action lawsuit? i almost locked myself out after converting via the web management gui the raid 5 array to raid 6, the controllers firmware didnt recognize the system partition anymore, therefore my system went almost unuseable... but thanks to a emergency backup gentoo on a classic spinning drive i survived it :wink: even the gui didnt warn me, that raid 6 is not bootable on their controllers! yes, not even on more expensive 2000/3000 series rocketraid cards, according to a support engineer :evil: :evil: :evil: i had a very interesting (NEGATIVE) conversation logged with an (support)engineer and would WITH CLEAN CONSIENCE NOT recommend to buy any products from them... they are like nvidia, to recite mr. torvalds: "they just want to sell chips..." thanks again all for the massive help here, but for me the case is closed! i ordered already the: Areca ARC-1883ix-16 PCIe Hardware Raid Controller https://www.areca.com.tw/products/1883.htm Product Picture: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91lJ6t1gicL._SL1500_.jpg as a worthy replacement, the only drawback seems he is nearly 2,5 times as expensive than its highpoint counterpart :cry: needed in-kernel driver module: Code: SCSI_ARCMSR i talked a lot with a VERY friendly and competent support engineer from areca...they seems areca manage things like amd style : open and transparent also thanks to areca for perfect linux driver support und regular firmware updates on reported problems ... unlike highpoint -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
