From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 4 7:34: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17ED37B424; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 07:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86649A10; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:33:53 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200009010830.BAA02219@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200009010830.BAA02219@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:33:19 +0200 To: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:30 AM -0700 2000/9/1, Mike Smith wrote: > I've just committed a driver for the abovementioned RAID adapter families > provided by DPT/Adaptec and the long-suffering Mark Salyzyn. The driver > will be maintained by Adaptec, with a little help from yours truly if > really necessary. Excellent! Any ideas when this might be MFC'd to -STABLE? > With any luck, we should see the complete set of management tools > available from Adaptec shortly to complement this driver, and I'll be > backporting to -stable once I'm certain I haven't broken anything with > this commit, since the driver's already had a long shakedown period. Awesome! You mean that we won't have to reboot into DOS (or PROM) to manage reconfigure this thing? Cool! > Thanks to Adaptec, Mark Salyzyn and Justin Gibbs for again being the right > person in the right place at the right time. And thanks to you, for all your hard work that you've put in to make all the various RAID adaptors function correctly under FreeBSD! We couldn't do it without you, Mike! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message