From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 7 23:34:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nexus.plymovent.se (nexus.plymovent.se [212.247.77.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA0C14FC9 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 23:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from tu ([192.168.1.21]) by nexus.plymovent.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA27973; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 08:46:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) From: "Thomas Uhrfelt" To: Cc: "Kelly Yancey" Subject: Hardware Database (was: RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller)) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 08:33:25 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <001101bef93f$e8fb6d00$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It would be excellent if you had the time/resources to start such a site. I hope such a project can boost the development of new devicedrivers for FreeBSD, I always donate unneeded stuff to various computerclubs in my hometown. But if I knew that it could do some good to the FreeBSD project I would gladly send these hardware gadgets to a willing programmer. Thomas Uhrfelt > -----Original Message----- > From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:kbyanc@alcnet.com] > Sent: den 7 september 1999 16:47 > To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se > Subject: RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller) > > > > This is indeed a good idea. If nobody else has stepped up to the > challenge, I will try to have such a site up by the end of the week (Well, > let's make it Sunday...gives me the weekend to work on it too :) ). I'll > keep everyone posted. > > Kelly > ~kbyanc@posi.net~ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve - http://www.freebsd.org/ > Join Team FreeBSD - http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ > > "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of > folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer > > > > An excellent initiative! > > > > I think there are many administrators/system managers out there with a > huge > > stack of unused goods lying on the shelves to no use at all. > Perhaps there > > should be a database where interested devicedriver programmers > could post > > their needs and sysadminds could post their unneeded hardware > on. Perhaps > in > > that way we could speed up the development of HW drivers for > FreeBSD? Any > > thoughts on this one? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Geoff > Buckingham > > > Sent: den 3 september 1999 10:08 > > > To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller) > > > > > > > > > > > > Through a mis-order I have aquired a PERC card (Actually an AMI > megaRAID) > > > which I am happy to make available to anyone genuinly interested > > > in working > > > on a driver (This is the PCI RAID card that goes into Dells Power > > > Edge servers > > > if ordered in a RAID configuration) > > > > > > -- > > > Geoff Buckingham > > > Systems Manager > > > Netlink Internet Services > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message