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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:54:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <429BA7CB.1040400@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ZZT-qS-29@gated-at.bofh.it>

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
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-05-31  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <49Zx1-8ne-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <49ZZT-qS-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-30 23:54   ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-05-30 20:52 Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid Eric Jones
2005-05-30 21:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-30 17:48 Clemente Aguiar
2005-05-30 18:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-30 17:13 Clemente Aguiar
2005-05-30 17:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-30 18:01   ` Jeff Sipek
2005-05-30 18:05     ` Jeff Garzik

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