lol you sure could have fooled me. Every post you've made has mostly been defending the position of Areca or the OEM, including this post (minus the last small note that you are not arguing on the part of the manufacturer lol)
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038879653&postcount=1753
No, I am just giving you the realities of how things do work as opposed to how we would like them to work.
If you don't like how things are, then sell your Areca and buy something else where you feel you will be better treated/supported. By all means vote with your dollars. You will find every HBA manufacturer works the same way. Areca, LSI etc all have QVL and using anything outside of it they won't guarantee compatibility.
It also goes beyond HBAs. Use ink that isn't certified by your printer manufacturer, they won't guarantee any quality results or that you wont get streaks down the page (Even worse, with Xerox Solid Ink printers for example third party ink actually destroyed the print heads and Xerox wouldn't replace them under warranty, which was upheld even in the face of the Mangusson-Moss Warranty Act). If a manufacturer puts forth a list of compatible items, and you choose an item that isn't on the list you can sick your lawyers on them if you have a problem, but in the end as I said this is how things are now and NOT how I (or you) would like them.
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