Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:02:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> To: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980728160204.5085X-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <19980728150135.A14581@Alameda.net>
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Well, like I said, I still have the original email from mylex telling me I had to have an NDA, when I was going to hire somebody to work on the mylex driver because I have 5 of them sitting here. It was cheaper to just chuck 'em, and buy DPT. On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:17:50PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.980727225747.5085B-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> you wrote: > > > > > > Get DPT's or Adaptec's. Development of the Buslogic line seems to have > > > died. > > > > > > Given adaptec's new stance towards free OS's, and Mylex's closed-door > > > policy, I can only imagine that the Adaptec drivers will continue to > > > improve. > > > > Mylex is hardly closed-door. I had no problem getting the documentation > > required to write the FreeBSD-CAM BusLogic driver. I believe that specs > > for their RAID controllers are easy to obtain too. Just look at the > > Linux DAC960 driver. > > Mylex gave me the documentation for the DAC960 controller and even > a 3 channel DAC960PJ with 8MB EDO/ECC memory. I am still working on > learning more about stuff to continue the driver. I have so far > the detection complete (PCI, which controller version, memory, > channels, system drives, etc.) > > > > > -- > > Justin > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- > Regards, Ulf. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 > Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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