Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:17:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: ulf@Alameda.net Cc: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, mrcpu@internetcds.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver Message-ID: <199807291717.TAA00766@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19980728150135.A14581@Alameda.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Jul 28, 98 03:01:35 pm"
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As 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.) I also have a DAC960 lying here. But I need to build myself a PCI based test box before I can do anything with it. Short of stuffing in an Alpha box that is ;-) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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