From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jun 18 19: 3:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9A437B401 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5J2E0P03750; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106190214.f5J2E0P03750@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "E.B. Dreger" Cc: mylexsup@us.ibm.com, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex RAID drivers In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Jun 2001 01:47:00 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:14:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Greetings, > > Where would one find the information necessary to write a device driver > for the DAC960 family of controllers? You ask me. 8) > I ask because many FreeBSD users have DAC960 controllers (I alone have one > rev 2.xx and two rev 3.xx cards) that we wish to use with FreeBSD. > However, it seems that the device driver needs work. That's correct. > We understand that Linux has a working driver for firmware rev 3.xx and > newer cards. However, due to licensing differences between Linux and BSD, > we [the FreeBSD developer and user community] wish to continue working > with the more flexible BSD license. > > Please direct us to a developer's resource so that will allow us to > further develop BSD drivers, and to continue enjoying Mylex RAID > controllers. If you're seriously interested in fixing the problems with these adapters, please contact me off the list and we can talk about it. The issues are relatively straightforward, they just need someone with a suitable adapter and some time to work on it. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message