[geeks] IBM rant

[velociraptor]

On 12/1/06, Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, velociraptor wrote:
> > 3ware SATA "real" HW RAID, and they even do RAID 5.  And they *might*
> > work in an EFI box, I got a really cryptic email[0] from 3ware support
> > on the topic, but don't have an EFI box to test.  I've been wondering
> > if I could talk a GeniusBar guru into letting plugging one into a demo
> > MacPro to see what happens.
>
> I thought the whole deal with having correct firmware for BIOS/EFI/OF was
> only if you wanted to boot from it.  It should otherwise just work for
> non-boot drives as long as the correct drivers are loaded, right?

Well, I wouldn't boot off it anyway, so that's good enough info.  I
suppose the notion of support under OS X on x86 is far-fetched even
though there is a 3ware driver for FreeBSD.  That means some other OS
under Parallels--but at least it would consolidate things to one box.

=Nadine=