From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 17:43:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BDB14DF9 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05278; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001200151.RAA05278@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Toomas Aas" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM ServeRAID 3L In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:20:18 +0200." <200001191524.RAA13846@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I have a server with IBM ServeRAID 3L (currently running Windows > NT) to which I would like to install FreeBSD. Alas, after > browsing www.freebsd.org and www.ibm.com it seems that this > combination of OS and controller is not currently supported. That's correct. > There is, however, support for Linux by IBM, which is licensed > under GNU General Public License (I'm not very sure what this > means). It means that some information about the controller is available in a form that makes it reasonably hard to do anything about it. > Would it be very difficult task to develop ServeRAID support for > FreeBSD, given that it already exists for Linux? It would, of > course, for me, but there must be someone in this big FreeBSD > community who is able to do this...? I would rather not install > Linux. The process would be reasonably straightforward, and I'd be quite interested in doing it if someone were to send me one of these controllers. It's worth noting, however, that IBM recently acquired Mylex, and this controller family may be close to the end of its product life. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message