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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:35:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      KnightStalker <knight@knightstalker.net>
To:        <thrawn@linux.nu>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IBM ServRAID 3L controller support under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1226.63.150.241.74.1025703326.squirrel@peon.knightstalker.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020703142433.A1632@thrawn.birch.se>
References:  <20020703142433.A1632@thrawn.birch.se>

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It is true.  I hunted for a month to find a driver for IBM serveraid.  I
have a kickin IBM 704 that has an integrated IBM serveraid in it and have
had to go with Adaptec instead.  With IBM adopting Linux, I feel it is just
a matter of time til drivers will appear.

Good Luck

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:05:14PM +0300, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:31:25PM +0200, thrawn@linux.nu wrote:
>>
>> > > > I have a IBM ServRAID 3L card, and I was woundering
>> > > > if this card is supported in FreeBSD?
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > I do not beleive so. Linux/Netware/NT/SCO/OS\/2 is
>> > > supported. IBM have release the source-code for Linux,
>> > > so it could be supported.
>> > >
>> > > There is a thread on the mailing-list that touched the
>> > > issue some years ago revealing the same answer.
>> >
>> > I have searched groups.google.com but the mails that I found are at
>> > least one and half to two years old so perhaps the are wrong but I
>> > will check out the mailing-list archives on FreeBSD homepage. Any
>> > way you don't remember the subject of that discussion?
>> >
>> > But the chip that is on the RAID cotroller is on the hardware
>> > support-list for FreeBSD at the homepage.
>>
>> The chip doesn't matter, it's the powerpc or i960 processor which does
>> the work and the driver will communicate with. If I remember Mike
>> Smith said ages ago that he can do the driver as paid work. So far
>> nobody has been interested enough and there's no driver for IBM
>> ServeRAID line.
>
> Well I guess I better replace it then, are you absolutly sure about
> this?
>
> Forgive me if Im paranoid... :)
>
>> Vallo Kallaste
>> kalts@estpak.ee
>
> Mvh Mattias Björk
>
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