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From: "Allen Mah" <amah@highpoint-tech.com>
To: "'Chuck Swiger'" <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:29:34 -0800
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Hi Chuck, I will let our customers know. If there are any changes to our
IC's will this affect the loading of the driver? 

For example: If our 372 IC became 372N would the driver still load?

Thanks

Allen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswiger@mac.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:11 AM
> To: amah@highpoint-tech.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Native Support?
> 
> Allen Mah wrote:
> > To whom it may concern. I would like to know if HighPoint Technologies,
> > HPT374 IC will still have native support in future FreeBSD release
> beyond
> > version 5.0 ?
> 
> Hi, Allen--
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2 contains the following in src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h:
> 
> #define ATA_HIGHPOINT_ID        0x1103
> #define ATA_HPT366              0x00041103
> #define ATA_HPT372              0x00051103
> #define ATA_HPT302              0x00061103
> #define ATA_HPT371              0x00071103
> #define ATA_HPT374              0x00081103
> 
> ...so I believe the answer to your question is yes.  You might get more
> detailed answers asking on <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>.  I've got a
> HPT370
> which has been working fine, but it's nice to see hardware vendors being
> interested in having FreeBSD support their products...
> 
> --
> -Chuck