From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 5 14:34:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freya.circle.net (morrigu.circle.net [209.95.64.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8231556F; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:34:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcobb@staff.circle.net) Received: by FREYA with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:30:23 -0400 Message-ID: From: tcobb@staff.circle.net To: salyzyn@dpt.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, michaelh@cet.co.jp, kirk@bohica.net, lyndon@MessagingDirect.COM, bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr, kwc@world.std.com, horton@cft.net, gambert@cft.net Subject: RE: DPT RAID I2O Card driver Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:30:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BEDF89.B9C04D10" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BEDF89.B9C04D10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" At Circle Net, we would VERY VERY much like to see a 3.x driver for the new generation DPT RAID cards. We use the older ones, but have a hard time justifying the difference in cost to our customers. In addition, in larger array environments, the older DPT RAIDs just don't cut it. FCAL is something we need right away. Someone tell me what's necessary to get this ported to 3.x and stabilized and I'll see what we can offer to assist. (We've been waiting for Simon Shapiro to complete this for nearly 9 months, I'm very happy to see that someone has stepped forward to do it, and hats-off to DPT for committing personnel to this project!) Sincerely, -Troy Cobb Circle Net, Inc. http://www.circle.net -----Original Message----- From: Mark Salyzyn [mailto:salyzyn_mark@dpt.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 5:08 PM To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; michaelh@cet.co.jp; kirk@bohica.net; lyndon@MessagingDirect.COM; bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr; kwc@world.std.com; horton@cft.net; gambert@cft.net Subject: DPT RAID I2O Card driver I have a preliminary SCSI driver for the following series of DPT `I2O' controller cards and FreeBSD 2.2.X: PM1554 PM2554 PM3754 PM3755 This driver has passthrough (a CLI based configuration tool runs with it native on FreeBSD 2.2.8 at least). The driver has *no* timeout handling, for example, so it's not full production yet, but it was based on the released BSDi BSD/OS 4.0.1 DPT driver, so it should have some ingrown stability. It handles Ultra 2, Ultra 3, Fibre, dual-port fibre and up to 4 SCSI channel cards. I am interested in people to test the driver and tools, contact me if you currently own the above DPT controller cards and I'll curl up the driver source and tools. If there is anyone interested in porting it to the 3.X or 4.X environments, I must admit there is limited will currently to do that here, thus porting it to the CAM layer in the later OS' would be highly appreciated. Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message ------_=_NextPart_001_01BEDF89.B9C04D10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="windows-1252"

At Circle Net, we would VERY VERY much like to see a 3.x driver for the new

generation DPT RAID cards. We use the older ones, but have a hard time

justifying the difference in cost to our customers. In addition, in larger array

environments, the older DPT RAIDs just don't cut it. FCAL is something

we need right away.

Someone tell me what's necessary to get this ported to 3.x and stabilized and

I'll see what we can offer to assist.

(We've been waiting for Simon Shapiro to complete this for nearly 9 months,

I'm very happy to see that someone has stepped forward to do it, and hats-off

to DPT for committing personnel to this project!)

Sincerely,

-Troy Cobb
Circle Net, Inc.
http://www.circle.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Salyzyn [mailto:salyzyn_mark@dpt.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 5:08 PM
To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; michaelh@cet.co.jp; kirk@bohica.net; lyndon@MessagingDirect.COM; bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr; kwc@world.std.com; horton@cft.net; gambert@cft.net
Subject: DPT RAID I2O Card driver

I have a preliminary SCSI driver for the following series of DPT

`I2O' controller cards and FreeBSD 2.2.X:

        PM1554

        PM2554

        PM3754

        PM3755

This driver has passthrough (a CLI based configuration tool runs

with it native on FreeBSD 2.2.8 at least). The driver has *no* timeout

handling, for example, so it's not full production yet, but it was based

on the released BSDi BSD/OS 4.0.1 DPT driver, so it should have

some ingrown stability. It handles Ultra 2, Ultra 3, Fibre, dual-port

fibre and up to 4 SCSI channel cards.

I am interested in people to test the driver and tools, contact me if

you currently own the above DPT controller cards and I'll curl up the

driver source and tools.

If there is anyone interested in porting it to the 3.X or 4.X environments,

I must admit there is limited will currently to do that here, thus porting

it to the CAM layer in the later OS' would be highly appreciated.

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn

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