From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 29 12:25:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10172 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10154 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA11837 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:04:29 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA00766; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:17:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199807291717.TAA00766@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver In-Reply-To: <19980728150135.A14581@Alameda.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Jul 28, 98 03:01:35 pm" To: ulf@Alameda.net Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:17:00 +0200 (CEST) Cc: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, mrcpu@internetcds.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As 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.) 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