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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:47:46 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Scott Donovan" <Scott.Donovan@tassie.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW: Smart Cache VI and FBSD 4.0 
Message-ID:  <200007192347.QAA27895@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:51:44 %2B1000." <NGEJKOMOICEOKIFFHCNCOEDACBAA.Scott.Donovan@tassie.net.au> 

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> Ahh righto.. Hmm I wonder if this is an area where the BSDi people could
> have an effect. Lately I am having to make a number of hardware choices am
> unhappy with to keep FreeBSD installed. In this case I changed my order to a
> mylex card, for which the support where I am is not great.

I don't know if "the BSDi people" will have an effect here; I'm not sure 
how easy it might be to migrate the BSD/OS DPT driver to FreeBSD, or if 
DPT would be happy with that (I think they would).

> Further to this is there any known comparisons for the the various raid
> products under FreeBSD anywhere? (Previously to this I have been using a
> transparent raid system).

I don't have any comparisons, just listings at 
http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID

> Hmm Perhaps someone needs to throw a LOT of money at simon to get the i2o
> card reintegrated into the -stable and -current branches!

The last I heard, Simon was dealing with some health issues and a lot of 
workload.  I'm not sure if he's going to get back to I2O or not.

-- 
... 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]




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