RAID Cards

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Simon wrote:

>Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of support, doesn't
>mean the card itself is bad. 
>
You wouldn't be saying that if you had had one of your RAIDed drives 
fail and had no indication whatsoever that it had done so.  IMHO, OS 
level monitoring of a RAID is vital.

>The sad fact is most manufacturers don't receive enough FreeBSD demand to
>support it :-( I wish and keep waiting for this to change one day. I would be very
>happy then, but until then...
>  
>
The sad fact is that most manufacturers are not prepared to release 
enough information about their boards for a native CLI to be written.  
Even a source code Linux driver would significantly aid a FreeBSD 
version, but most manufacturer's prefer to keep their dirty secrets hidden.

--Alex