Date: 13 Dec 2005 11:00:42 -0600 From: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ICP driver with FreeBSD 4.x ... Message-ID: <878xup3pad.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> In-Reply-To: <20051207194635.V1480@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20051207194635.V1480@ganymede.hub.org>
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** On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:57:12 -0400 (AST), "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> said: Marc> I've been trying to get icpcon available at Marc> http://www.vortex.de/english/download/rz_neu/freebsd/frbsd_e.htm Marc> to work on my 4.x-STABLE server ... after talking to the techs, Marc> I've been told that I have to install the driver available on Marc> that web page, since the one in 4.x is outdated ... Yup, the only way we've gotten icpcon to work on 4.x systems is to replace the FreeBSD iir with the one from ICP. Marc> Can someone comment on the safety of upgrading that driver to Marc> the one that they have on their web site on a live server? Are Marc> there any ramifications, or risks, with doing this? We have had no problems at all using ICP's driver on 4.x systems. Our procedure is to put the iir device into the kernel and replace the contents of the /usr/src/sys/dev/iir directory with ICP's. We have not tried the kernel module. We have ICP cards (the 4 port SATA GDT8546RZ card) in both 4.11 and 4.10 systems. (We also have them on 5.4 and 6.0 systems with the stock FreeBSD iir driver, and an updated icpcon package from ICP works fine with those.)
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