On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:42:15PM -0700, Scott Silva said: > Michael Watters spake the following on 4/9/2007 1:19 PM: > > John R Pierce wrote: > >> Michael Watters wrote: > >>> Wow, that's stupid. I guess we'll be switching to Adaptec cards... > >> > >> I'd go LSI Logic before I'd let anything Adaptec near my systems > > LSI Logic cards are really buggy in Linux, we've had nothing but > > problems with them. > And I just replaced adaptec's in a couple of HP servers here. > > I just went to re-read the release notes, and now 9.4.1 doesn't show up on the > downloads, and the release notes don't have the ext3 paragraph. > I guess they do listen, and might have pulled it to re-do and re-release it. > Either someone threw a major fit, or they read the boards. I sent an email to their sales department, and I bet I'm not the only one... Maybe sales / support let the management know that there was a major backlash brewing... For hardware SATA RAID, 3Ware is the only brand I trust. They just work, and really do support Linux. Hopefully they won't remain silent on this - I suggested that they make an announcement in order to let Linux buyers know that they DO listen, and that Linux matters.