From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 10 21:25:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5773D37B402 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0B5PTG95664; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:25:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: peter@sysadmin-inc.com ("Peter Brezny") Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: 3ware Service and Support Submission Form Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:25:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 4 Jan 2001 16:07:54 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >There is reference to the beta version of 3ware's 3dm too for their raid >cards being in a beta version, however, 3ware just told me they have no >plans for FreeBSD. > >I wrote back encouraging them to do so. Did I just get a hold of a = clueless >rep at 3ware, or are we going to have to do this on our own? They = provide >the sourcecode for redhat and suse... > b)... I think it depends who you talk to. The first time I asked a few months ago I got the same response. They might have understood the question, as being will _3ware_ write FreeBSD _drivers_ of which they are not. But I was told by them that they will release the 3dm util sometime = in the future for FreeBSD based on the drivers written by msmith...=20 Note, I have used this card on Win2K, NT4 and LINUX. Comparing drivers, I have had the best overall results with the FreeBSD version. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message