On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2006/12/10, dean gaudet <dean@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > not so the 9550sx. > > Next time check http://www.vendorwatch.org/ before buying hardware. hmm maybe i'm missing something, but that site says 3ware is "somewhat friendly" regarding documentation... and i've found this to be entirely true -- their driver has been solid (and open source) since the hardware appeared, and years ago when asked how to get SMART from their devices their engineers gave out code on first request (hence the excellent smartmontools support). i don't care if they have support for anything other than linux and the website seems to be faulting them for not supporting OpenBSD... and frankly i can't blame 3ware for not supporting such an obscure OS ;) i'm totally happy with how 3ware has treated linux. although if i allow myself to be unrealistic i would love to see their DCB documented, and/or some industry standardization in that direction... i know there was some attempt at that but i'm not holding my breath waiting for such things. md/mdadm give me so much more than i think i'll ever see from a hw raid costing ~$500. (except NVRAM :) -dean
