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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Subject: Re: AIC9410 support
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Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Monday 10 September 2007 06:49 am, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>> The only historical references I could find were:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg79964.html
>>
>> where a year ago Scott Long suggests that it might work in HostRAID
>> mode but not in standalone mode.
> 
> If someone's interested, non-HostRAID driver for Linux is here:
> 
> http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/sas/linux/adp94xx-1_0_8-12_src_tgz.htm
> 
> This driver is dual-licensed under BSD/GPL as it was based on Justin 
> Gibbs' aic7xxx driver, I believe.
> 

Well, it's based on work that Gibbs did before he and I left Adaptec.
Porting it will be a very big task; if anyone has a serious interest in
this, please contact me in private.

Scott