Re: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid

[Robert Hancock]

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.

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