From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Feb 10 15:02:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03100 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03059 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id QAA24290; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:02:20 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199902102302.QAA24290@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: compaq raid controller In-Reply-To: from spork at "Feb 10, 1999 4:51:24 pm" To: spork@super-g.com (spork) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:02:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org spork wrote... > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > spork wrote... > > > Hi, > > > > > > I noticed there is a driver available for Compaq's raid cards, but it's > > > not part of the distribution. Is anyone using this, and if so, how has it > > > been working? Any plans to roll it into distribution? > > > > Really? Where? Is it CAM or non-CAM? Is the copyright "okay" by FreeBSD > > standards? Are there any intellectual property issues with it? > > > > (I think I remember it being discussed here on -scsi before, but I can't > > recall much about it.) > While I was going through the mail archives, I saw it existed at least as > long ago as 1996. The gentleman that maintains it has a web page at > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~md/ida. > > I'm assuming it's not CAM :( > > As for the copyright, I see none whatsoever up top. > > Thanks, > > Charles > > --- > Charles Sprickman > spork@super-g.com In this case, it doesn't depend on CAM at all. It is a standalone disk driver, like the IDE driver and a couple of other drivers out there. He has a version for FreeBSD 3.0, which I imagine would probably work fine with -stable or -current at this point. You're right, there is no copyright. Of course, without a copyright, we can't distribute it. We'd also probably need to make sure there aren't any intellectual property concerns with the driver. (The author would probably have an idea whether or not that would be a problem.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message