[geeks] In which 3Ware can bite me

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Blow it out your ass, 3Ware.
> 
> And forgot to ask ... can anyone here with first-hand experience offer
> useful advice on what OSen have:
> (a) out-of-the-box 9500 RAID support, since I'm clearly not getting any
> from 3Ware;
> (b) software RAID1 support for mirrored boot;
> and
> (c) a decently functional, decently configurable, decently fast, and
> generally not-brain-damaged nfsd?
> 
> I'd hoped to use this box to learn both Solaris 10 and ZFS.  It seems
> clear now that neither of those is happening, but I may as well at least
> get some use out of the box.

NetBSD can do all of this.  I suspect FreeBSD can do all of this as 
well, but I'm not sure about driver support.  I know for a fact that it 
works out of the box in NetBSD.

Peace...  Sridhar