Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261842AbVEaAF0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261647AbVEaADl (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:03:41 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:64369 "EHLO pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261729AbVE3X4C (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 19:56:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:54:51 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid In-reply-to: <49ZZT-qS-29@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <429BA7CB.1040400@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <49Zx1-8ne-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <49ZZT-qS-29@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1059 Lines: 25 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I would be very suspicious about the claim that the xor stuff is done in > hardware and not in the binary part. I'm actually surprised that a linux > friendly company like IBM actually gets involved with binary drivers > like this though.... a bit disappointing. > > but yeah this sounds like a really bad purchase. Indeed, this controller in the 346s is a regression from the 345 servers, which had an onboard LSI Logic Fusion MPT controller which could do hardware RAID 1, at least, and has a GPL driver. Oh well.. if you really want to use hardware RAID, you can put in the ServeRAID-7k card, which is much better, and has a GPL driver. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/