On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:38:20AM +0530, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Talk about you feeling like Charlie .. My experience, long back with a
> server with an Intel L440GX motherboard being built with everything
> Hot swap. We went on so far as to go for a true hardware RAID adapter
> instead of the firmware based RAID on the L440GX.

Reminds me of my time in Digital, Compaq, and HP.  Often needed to
support hardware RAID adapters for OpenVMS and Digital UNIX.

Customer would joyfully say they purchased hardware RAID "because
better" only for me to point out to them that the CPU on the adapter
did run firmware, and so the firmware was also a source of bugs.

Woe to the customer who did not heed our advice to take a full backup
before a firmware upgrade.  ;-)

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