Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:06:57 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Alson van der Meulen <alm@flutnet.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible Promise FastTrack RAID driver Message-ID: <200112290906.fBT96wD92921@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20011229062241.I11901@alm.xs4all.nl>
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It seems Alson van der Meulen wrote: > When searching for FreeBSD support for the Promise 20265r (FastTrack > RAID, ATA100, integrated on some mainboards), I came across this, it > looks like a FreeBSD RAID driver for this controller. It doesn't seem to > be an official released driver, this is the only place I've seen it, and > the copyright message in some source files appear to forbid any > distribution. It might be worth asking Promise if they plan to > release a FreeBSD driver shortly though. > > It's build for FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, but it appears to compile on > 4.4-STABLE fine, and since the source is included it shouldn't be > difficult to update. > > I only glanced through the source files, since (nearly) no documentation > is provided. If we could get this under BSD license, we might be able to > provide real support for the FastTrack RAID (i.e. not simply as IDE > controller). I've not been able to test it yet (don't have a FastTrack > ATM). > > The URL of the website: > http://www.gigabytenetworking.com/info/DriverDowload.asp > (typo is not mine) > > The driver is at: > http://www.gigabytenetworking.com/GBT_Download/Drivers/ft_freeBSD42.tgz > > Just my 0.02 euro. > > Any thoughts? We already have support for the Fasttraks in the kernel (and have had that for a long time now), with code that is developed outside Promise. However it still needs a bit of work, but with a little luck that should clear up soon.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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