Subject: Re: CMD Technology PCI0649 RAID not working on NetBSD-1.52
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com, port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Ioan Nemes <inemes@transylvania.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/21/2001 15:21:53
Sydney, 21 October 2001

Greetings,

Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

.....
> 
> The deal on the MegaRAID controllers is this:  some of these
> controllers are I2O and will work with our "iop" driver, while some
> are not.  Andy Doran did some work on a driver for the other
> MegaRAID controllers, which I was testing for him, but it had some
> problems, notably data corruption if you had a lot of write-back
> cache.
> 
> Interestingly, I have seen reports of similar problems with *AMI's
> own* drivers for Linux and other operating systems
> (e.g. Solaris/x86).  The upshot is that I simply do not trust the
> AMI controllers and won't use them for anything important.
.....

Hmmmm ... I am using them with UnixWare (database servres - Progress),
and I never had any problems (at least in the past five years)!

Ioan