From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 28 6:36:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C4937BEC7 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (postfix@genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA99417; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:35:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id B5E1D362; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:36:12 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:36:12 +0100 From: Joe Karthauser To: Brad Knowles Cc: Mark Powell , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <20000428143612.N40708@pavilion.net> References: <20000428131619.K40708@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 02:29:57PM +0200 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 , 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 > 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