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Subject: Re: Areca SATA RAID controller
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Doug White wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Richard Tector wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I was wondering if there are any plans to merge into HEAD the driver for the
>>Areca SATA RAID controllers?
>>They do supply FreeBSD drivers, including source, at
>>ftp://60.248.88.208/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/FreeBSD/DRIVER/ which I have had no
>>problems so far using under RELENG_5 though I have yet to test the
>>controller and drivers under -CURRENT.
> 
> 
> I don't see any PRs with patches.  The source is BSD-licensed so it only
> needs an advocate and a committer.
> 

If someone is willing to send me a card, I'll make sure the driver gets
into the tree.

Scott