Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

From: Charles Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 03/20/05

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    Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:06:17 -0500
To: Jason Crawford <jasonrcrawford@gmail.com>

    On Mar 19, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Jason Crawford wrote:
    > I fail to see how this "FUD check" email has anything to do with the
    > fact that Scott locked all freebsd users to Adaptec's binary-only
    > management utility, which means the user IS NOT FREE to change
    > something on it to either work better, fix a bug, add a feature, or
    > just experiment, as well as just develop/use a different management
    > utility.

    You made the assertion that Scott was doing something to lock FreeBSD
    users "into only one option for a RAID card". This assertion is
    nonsense, so obviously so that it is clearly FUD.

    You have also made the assertion that FreeBSD users are forever locked
    into using a binary-only solution from Adaptec to manage AAC hardware.
    This assertion is also untrue. I've seen one or two people talk with
    Scott on the FreeBSD lists about creating an open source replacement to
    the binary-only management tool. It's probably a lot of work, and it
    will be ready when the work gets done, or not, depending on their time,
    interest, and motivation.

    In the meantime, people can use the binary management tool just fine,
    or they can revert to using the BIOS directly if they don't want to run
    the binary tool.

    > This is not FUD, but fact. An unacceptable fact.

    "Unacceptable" to whom? I can't remember seeing *anyone* complain
    about this matter over the past three years, so it's demonstrably not a
    problem for any noticable fraction of the FreeBSD userbase.

    You claim otherwise? Prove it!

    Cite Message-id from the FreeBSD mailing lists prior to this thread.
    Don't be bashful when it comes to showing evidence to back up your
    words.... 

    -- 
-Chuck
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