From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jun 30 23:13:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7EF14CA4 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA40208; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:13:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199907010613.AAA40208@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: Are SIIG SCSI Cards Supported? In-Reply-To: <199906301220.CAA18398@kauai.pacificglobal.net> from David Langford at "Jun 30, 1999 02:20:49 am" To: langfod@maui.net (David Langford) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:13:32 -0600 (MDT) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Langford wrote... > Okay I just tried it with current and it seems to work fine. > Note that you need to add > "COMPAT_PCI_DRIVER(iha, i91u_device);" > somewhere around line 133 of i91u.c. > > Right now my system is running off of a SIIG AP-40 (~$140) and all seems > fine. > Also I have a IWILL SIDE-2935UW that at first glance seems to work with > this same driver. > I havent had a chance to do any real testing with either one though. > > Now if we can just get this driver into the main tree. There are actually two Initio drivers, one for their Ultra-2 boards, and one for their Ultra boards. There are several things that have to happen before these drivers can go in the tree: 1. We (Justin or me) need to talk to Initio about incorporating their driver into the tree. 2. We need clarificaton on the copyright on the I9xxx driver. One file has a standard BSD copyright, one file has a copyright that doesn't explicitly allow redistribution, and one file has no copyright at all. The A100 driver has a BSD copyright on both files. My guess is that the copyright difference on the I9xxx driver is just an oversight. 3. Justin needs to review the driver. > Since it looks likes Adaptec has pretty much killed the Sysmbios/NCR > chipset the Initio line may be the next reasonable cost SCSI controller... As someone else pointed out, the Symbios cards are not dead. Symbios is now a part of LSI Logic, but as far as I know, they aren't going to discontinue making products. They're probably the second most successful SCSI chip vendor on the market, so they have little reason to quit. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message