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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:29:57 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?
Message-ID:  <v0422080fb52f3316ebe9@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <20000428131619.K40708@pavilion.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004281216060.36055-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> <20000428131619.K40708@pavilion.net>

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At 1:16 PM +0100 2000/4/28, Joe Karthauser wrote:

>  Simon Shapiro's writing an i2o subsystem for 3.x, which supports
>  the DPT smart raid V card.  He's working on support for 4.x, but
>  it's to there yet.

	This system has been under development for a very long time.  DPT 
has since released a SmartRAID VI card that will supposedly use the 
same i2o drivers, and they have since been bought by Adaptec.  I was 
supposed to be getting a loaner card (with official drivers from DPT) 
for evaluation and testing sometime last year, but it never came off.

	According to <http://simon-shapiro.org/dpt_drivers.html>, the 
driver is already a standard feature of FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.1 and 4.0, 
but I don't see it myself (unless he's talking about the older 
SmartRAID IV).  There's another page at 
<http://simon-shapiro.org/drivers.html>; that indicates an i2o patch 
is available for RELENG_3, but this would seem to directly contradict 
the claims made on the other page.

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