From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 9 09:59:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA09445 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Octopussy (Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09436 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr3-14.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Octopussy with SMTP id AA22273 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:58:41 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id SAA03413; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:58:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199610091658.SAA03413@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:58:17 +0200 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: scott@statsci.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BusLogic FlashPoint drivers? In-Reply-To: <199610090414.VAA00578@one.sabami.seaslug.org>; from Scott Blachowicz on Oct 8, 1996 21:14:10 -0700 References: <199610090414.VAA00578@one.sabami.seaslug.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.45 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott Blachowicz writes: > Well, after bitching to our local sysadm folks about how we ought to > complain to Micron about their putting BusLogic FlashPoints in our PCs and > his forwarding of my "concerns" off to Micron and/or BusLogic, I got back > a response mentioning this page: > > > > which has this text: > > Coming Soon -- Linux FlashPoint Driver > and the "click here" page mentions a imminent Linux driver release. So, I > was wondering if anyone's been in touch with them recently to attempt the > same feat for FreeBSD. There was a request for support installing FreeBSD to a second or third hard-disk from the developer going to do the port. If you have some interest in the port, you may want to offer him your support to speed up the process :) Regards, STefan