Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:05:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Eirik ?verby <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: asr on amd64 Message-ID: <20050114180534.GA12260@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <41E7D834.7080505@anduin.net> References: <41E31103.1040003@anduin.net> <20050114002254.GC29445@dragon.nuxi.com> <41E7D834.7080505@anduin.net>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:33:24PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:34:27AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > >>Daring as I am, here's another attempt at having someone look into the > >>asr driver and why it doesn't work on amd64. > >>I have such a Zero-Channel RAID card laying around collecting dust, > >>whereas it was planned installed in a server here long time ago. > >> > >>I know Scott Long looked into it long ago, and he seems to have been the > >>last one to touch the driver. He indicated a few months ago that he had > >>little time; perhaps things look brighter now that 5.3 is out? > >> > >>I'll cross-post to -current/-stable in a few days if I don't hear > >>anything.. > > > >NO need to cross post. Unless you see a statement otherwise -- nothing > >has changed. eBay a *real* RAID controller. ;-)) > > Sorry. Already done.. And for the record, this *is* a "real" RAID > controller; .. > It's a Ultra320 SCSI RAID controller card, used by many Tyan high-end > Opteron motherboards. Zero-channel RAID controllers perform below a full-fledged RAID controllers. > it's a real pity noone cares about upgrading the driver. Its not a "don't care" issue -- if you investigated the driver you'd realize how difficult it is. It wasn't until just reciently that Linux managed to support these RAID cards in the 64-bit kernel. That's over 2 years since the first AMD64 Linux was released (much less beta's etc...) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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