From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 28 16:03:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11333 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA11265 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:03:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 10188 invoked from network); 28 Jul 1998 23:02:43 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 28 Jul 1998 23:02:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:02:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Ulf Zimmermann cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver In-Reply-To: <19980728150135.A14581@Alameda.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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