It started with wireless chipsets...

[n0cmonkey]

Theo looks for documentation on AAC RAID controllers.

The idea is to make a framework for raid utilities, maybe a raidctl(4) that works with every raid card out there (or whatever they can support). Booting into the raid card bios to rebuild an array is poopy, this could change that.

Theo and a number of developers have been trying to get this information for 4 months, but haven't had any luck. Through other emails on misc@ Theo mentions he has counted almost two thousand AAC cards in use with OpenBSD. Some by some large corporations.

If you're using AACs, thinking about using AACs, or have control over what your company purchases send Adaptec an email.

Come on Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD users. This could be useful for you too.

So far the only response from FreeBSD that I've seen (on OSnews.com here:

Direct comment link From a BSD and former Adaptec person...
By Scott (IP: ---.samsco.org) - Posted on 2005-03-19 19:02:37

I don't know if it's better to post this here or onto the openbsd-misc
list, but anyways....

First, Theo is full of crap. I'll say that again: Theo is full of
crap. I don't think that he's actually interested in making the AAC
cards work. Instead, I think that he's interested in stirring
controversy, petty bullying, and silly 'freedom' tripe.

I worked at Adaptec for almost five years, until last year. I worked
on the FreeBSD (and Linux) AAC driver, and I ported the AAC management
CLI to FreeBSD. It's available right now in the FreeBSD ports tree. I
also added the proper shims to the driver so that the Linux AACCLI
would work under emulation. The fact that I did these things is pretty
well known in the BSD community; several other projects have contacted
me over the years for help and information about AAC. But during the
time the Theo claims that he's cared about AAC, he NEVER ONCE
CONTACTED ME! If he had come to me before I left and asked for help on
making all of this AAC stuff work on OpenBSD, I would have been happy
to help him. Heck, I might have even ported the AACCLI for him on my
own.

Unfortuntely, Theo chose to ignore resources that would have helped
him, and instead chose his normal super-confrontational antics. I have
to commend Doug Richardson (one of the nicest men I've ever worked
with, BTW) for his very appropriate response. If Adaptec provides an
open SDK later this year, good for them, but it certainly is not due
to Theo.

Theo could have had AACCLI support years ago, but chose not to. I hope
he removes the driver from the tree. That would really teach everyone
how mature and 'right' he is.

Scott Long

It's a shame members of the community have that kind of attitude.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Oh, and to anyone that might think something along the lines of: Oh, but what RAID cards are supported in this fashion?

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support (mod 5/5)
by henning (IP 80.86.183.87) on Sat Mar 19 19:47:22 2005 (GMT)
LSI MegaRAID stuff (ami(4), there are more names this shitz is sold under) is really good in 3.7 and will very very very likely be the first to have management support (should make 3.8).

works fine on amd64 too.

Yeah, that's Henning@, the OpenBSD developer. He's probably shoeless and beerful. :beer: