From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 3 6:33:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1351D37B400; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PEON.knightstalker.net (pool-64-222-227-218.port.east.verizon.net [64.222.227.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8779E43E31; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:33:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knight@knightstalker.net) Received: from knightstalker.net (localhost.knightstalker.net [127.0.0.1]) by PEON.knightstalker.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g63DZLv00650; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:35:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from knight@knightstalker.net) From: KnightStalker Received: from 63.150.241.74 (SquirrelMail authenticated user knight) by peon.knightstalker.net with HTTP; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:35:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1226.63.150.241.74.1025703326.squirrel@peon.knightstalker.net> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:35:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: IBM ServRAID 3L controller support under FreeBSD To: In-Reply-To: <20020703142433.A1632@thrawn.birch.se> References: <20020703142433.A1632@thrawn.birch.se> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message