most rock solid SATA Raid card for 5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-RELEASE

[Scott Long]

user wrote:

> Scott,
> 
> thanks for your comments and help.
> 
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> 
>>The updated aaccli is probably available from the Adaptec website and
>>should work just fine with 5.4.  The updated driver is only in 6.0 right
>>now.  Like I said above, I'll be updating the RELENG_5 code stream with
>>it soon, so that if there is a 5.5 it will have it.  That said, I'd
>>highly recommend that you investigate 6.0 as it has many other
>>improvements, and upgrading from 5.4 is very very easy.
> 
> 
> 
> Understood.  I will begin working with 6.0 immediately.  From what I can
> gether, the move from 5.x to 6.0 is very different than the move from 4.x
> to 5.0 ... 6.0 seems to be more of a organic growth from 5.x, and is less
> drastic and profound in its changes ?
> 
> I ask because there is no way I would have gone production on 5.0-RELEASE
> at the time, but now with 6.0-RELEASE I am hearing nothing but good and
> reassuring things about it ...
> 
> thanks.
> 

Yes, everyone worked very very hard on 6.0, and the results are quite
good.  We are also trying to make development and releases more
predictable and less surprising for users =-)

Scott