Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:36:12 +0100 From: Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <20000428143612.N40708@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <v0422080fb52f3316ebe9@[195.238.1.121]>; from blk@skynet.be on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 02:29:57PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004281216060.36055-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> <20000428131619.K40708@pavilion.net> <v0422080fb52f3316ebe9@[195.238.1.121]>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 02:29:57PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. I've been talking to him a lot of the last week and the case is as I specified above. He's got a patch set for 3.X (which I'm using with a DPT smart raid V card), and is working on 4.x, but with nothing published yet. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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