Thanks for your updates to the story Nick. As I said at this time I can't replace the card but I will certainly do so as soon as I'm able. I appreciate your feedback.
Shawn On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>wrote: > On 10/22/10 11:56, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > > It's not only problem with license, but with quality of Adaptec as a > > whole http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=125783114503531&w=2 . But > > maybe it changed as there is not Adaptec anymore. > > And don't forget this follow up: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126775051500581&w=2 > > As you people keep bringing Adaptec cards, I'm gonna update my story... > If you haven't read the above chapters in the story, you might. I > swear in it a few times. I don't usually do that. It's worth the read > just for that. :) > > ok, when we last saw this story, Adaptec was working on new firmware > which really would fix the problem. Not too long after I wrote the > second chapter in this saga, I got word from my ever-patient support guy > that they got a new firmware for me, and if this doesn't do it, they are > sending me new controllers (LSI), which they have switched to for all > new machines they send out (forcing a rev of their application). > > The new firmware is installed, and finally..things are working. > > > For a while. > > > A couple months ago, one of the boxes hangs and quits working, somewhat > like the very very first problem, but to be honest, that isn't my first > guess. I reboot the box, and call the service vendor and they look and > sure enough, a couple hours later I get a call from the guy who has > patiently worked with me on this stuff and he said, "It did it again." > I can't believe this, but sure enough, the system logs show the > controller tripping up and killing the system. again. > > So, they tell me, "That does it, you are getting the upgrade kit". They > send me out the deluxe edition, complete with new disks, array > pre-created and preloaded with the new OS, as the old array won't be > readable on the new array controller. The kit is actually pretty > decent, they have obviously spent a bit of time planning on having > people field-upgrade these what were supposed to be "sealed" boxes, and > changing cards in computers, of course, hasn't been an issue for > me...well, ever. > > It's something of a pain, though, as we basically have to rebuild the > box from scratch, and reconfigure it as the old system was (and hope we > got everything right the first time...which we did by the time the third > box was upgraded). While we are upgrading the first one, though, > another one died on us...leading us to think we've got an uptime-related > issue. > > So at this point, I've got three of the boxes upgraded with new firmware > (and a new version of the OS to go along with it). The fourth box, I > offered to test the NEXT new Craptec firmware on. Curiously, the > version number on the new firmware is SMALLER than the last "This is it" > version. Yes, you could feel my support contact rolling his eyes when > he told me that. > > Do note that every step of the way, they are sending me new FIRMWARE, > not new OS drivers. They are having trouble working around the bugs in > the hardware. THE CARD IS CRAP. THEY KNOW IT. > > > Tell me again how wonderfully it is working on your FreeBSD system. No, > better idea, don't. Save your breath. All I will believe at this point > is you haven't seen a problem...yet. Maybe this card doesn't suck as > bad as the ones we got in these four machines. Maybe it just sucks > differently. > > > Nick. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:44 PM, S H <shbulkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi misc, > >> > >> I'm looking for some feedback from people who might have tried using an > >> Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 21610SA on OpenBSD. B I completely understand > why > >> Theo and the rest of the developers don't include the driver in the > GENERIC > >> kernel since they were never given the documentation from Adaptec needed > to > >> create the best driver possible. > >> > >> My file server currently runs FreeBSD 8.1 and has the adaptec card in > it, > >> thus far it's ran quite well but I would love to have that system > running > >> OpenBSD if I can. B So I'm hoping someone on misc has experience with > this > >> card and might be able to offer some insight as to what I can expect in > >> comparison to how it runs on FBSD... > >> > >> I also wanted to take this time to thank all of the other developers for > > the > >> upcoming release. > >> > >> Shawn
