> If not, look at paying a small (say $1k) bounty to get it fixed. :) Unfortunately, our budget situation would not allow this sort of thing right now. :\ Buying hardware is a lot easier than paying for something like this. > Helping to fix the driver is a thing that Tim is in the unusual > situation to be able to do as he has access to the affected hardware. > However, if paid work demands a quicker solution, I'm hoping they'll fund > use of the SAS 3G card (cheap) whilst allowing Tim to occasionally work > with the SAS 6G card to work on a final solution! I can most likely switch to a different card. Just to make sure I get the right one, do you have a part number of the card that you are recommending? As I mentioned earlier, I was looking around on the LSI site and they have lots of options, but none with a port configuration that I need (2 external ports only). I'd be happy to help with debugging the 6G problem. I could probably install that card into another box and give some developers access to it, but I'd have to rustle up some disks and port expanders to make it a fair test. > Ideally we don't want Tim to have to move away from FreeBSD. We want him > to help fix the driver. I've been a FreeBSD man since 2.2.5, and I won't be switching off any time soon. :) We have several other FreeBSD servers at this point - 5 to be exact, plus my workstation, and there's talk of adopting it more because of Soracle's abandonment of various projects. We're primarily using them for bulk storage - most of them are ZFS with multi-terabyte ZFS file systems - but I've got one that's a workhorse for web and other such things. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tim Gustafson tjg_at_soe.ucsc.edu Baskin School of Engineering 831-459-5354 UC Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering 317B -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Received on Fri Sep 09 2011 - 13:49:27 UTC
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