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3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"
3.7: "The Wizard of OS"
3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"
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+ 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"
+ + +
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+ + For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock + out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our + programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support + their devices. +
+ Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support + for the + aac(4) + Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed. + They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support + for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which + affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of + course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these + bugs are apparently because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy + firmware issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation + we cannot solve these issues. +
+ The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts + of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no + public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with + different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate + development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of + "quality" to show its head. +
+ RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for: +
+
+
Redundant +
Repair +
+ You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives + fail your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your + array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations that repair + itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again. +
+ Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have + sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers, + so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have + never given us any documentation for performing Repairs. +
+ Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management + tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that + is supposed to work through a bizzare interface in the device driver, which + we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation. +
+ And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on + vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for + the AMI controllers. +
+ There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all + rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement + basic RAID management: +
+
SCSI transactions on the back-side busses +
Discovering which drives are in which volumes +
Being able to silence the buzzer +
Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare +
+
+ The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations. + And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost + all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives. +
+ Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later + work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation + or do some reverse engineering for their products. +
+ But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when if + ever we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID + controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which + may mean we can never get documentation for the + gdt(4) + controllers. + The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we + would not get documentation, either. + 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians + look saintly. +
+ Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID + in OpenBSD, please buy + LSI/AMI + RAID cards. And everything + + will just work. +
+ And keep pestering the other vendors. +
+ +
+
+ + Narrator: + Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!
+
+ Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!
+
+ Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most + treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and + morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed + hackologist and adventurer!
+
+ Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from + the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile + vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.
+
+ Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!
+
+
+ Marlus: + Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.
+
+ Puffy: + I'm a careful guy Marlus.
+
+
+ Puffy and Salmah: + They're hacking in the wrong place!
+
+
+ Beluge: + You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!
+
+ Puffy: + Now you're gettin' nasty.
+
+
+ Puffy: + SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?
+
+ Salmah: + API's, very dangerous. You go first.
+
+
+ Narrator: + Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally, + there before him + lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most + secure operating system, + to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by + the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?
+
+ Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of + Puffiana Jones!
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+ + CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled "Hackers of the Lost RAID". + Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. + The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis. + Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough. + Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios. + (1-403-233-0350). +
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+ + +

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