Hi, Nick Holland wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:30:58AM -0500: > On 1/13/22 5:58 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2022-01-13, Aleksander Dzierżanowski <aleksande...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is 'Adaptec 8405 SGL' hardware raid controller working under OpenBSD? >>> I saw there is *some* Adaptec support, but the model is not listed >>> explicitly. >>> Please advise if I should try to rent a dedicaated server with such >>> card or simply avoid this configuration. >> Avoid. >> Look for mfii for fast/advanced RAID or maybe mpii for something more >> basic. > Yeah, you don't want to use Adaptec for anything other than maybe > leveling your table. > > Consolidation of old posts into one spot here: > https://nickh.org/warstories/adaptec.html That war story is from 2009/2010, around the time when Adaptec went out of business in 2010, but Adaptec has already been a terrible choice for at least half a decade before that. Here is my own war story: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110384546229848 (2004-12-23) ... then follow the thread to ... https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110417903607462 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110521055729466 ... If finally ends here: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110540361502637 (2005-01-10) Adaptec tells me in direct email: "As you know it is not supported in FreeBSD officially and we appreciate your offering to test the firmware but at this time there is no plan to support FreeBSD or OpenBSD yet." Then, another try a few months later: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111180290020263 (2005-03-26) https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111180845207030 (2005-03-26) (Same problems under Linux as under OpenBSD) ... https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111938104307414 (2005-06-21) (Full summary of all the problems) https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112749851526934 (2005-09-23) (Note this is 3/4ers of a year after initially finding the problems and after switching to completely different hardware except for keeping the AAC card only, and after switching to Linux): "I'm holding my breath and trying not to touch it any more." Four years later: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=125779509813346 (2009-11-09) "Trash your aac(4) hardware and use softraid(4). At least that's what i'm doing right now. In a nutshell: insufficient docs, thus incomplete support; buggy firmware, thus unreliable with any operating system; Adaptec does not want customers using free software in the full sense of the word. They do write huge Linux drivers covering up the worst bugs in scary ways, but management is only provided by an unwieldy non-standard vendor-supplied Linux-only interactive stand-alone tool, and there is no bioctl(8) support." At that point, continue with Nick's story. Yours, Ingo
