Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:43:22 +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: <200112291543.fBTFhMO88858@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20011229152455.J11901@alm.xs4all.nl>
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It seems Alson van der Meulen wrote: > S?ren Schmidt(sos@freebsd.dk)@2001.12.29 10:15:03 +0000: > > It seems S?ren Schmidt wrote: > > > 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.. > > > > BTW, it is interesting to see that they just used the ATA driver I've > > written for FreeBSD, ripped off the Copyright headers, and added ft_ to > > all function names, then added their own RAID engine which seems to > > be a quick and dirty port of the win version.... > sigh... > > What this driver does have, and we don't, is support for RAID. AFAIK, > our own driver can only use it as an ATA controller. There's no bzzst! *WRONG* we have had support for the RAID's on fasttracks since: /sys/dev/ata/ata-raid.c revision 1.1 date: 2000/10/13 13:04:45; author: sos; state: Exp; Add support for ATA "pseudo" RAID controllers as the Promise Fasttrak and HighPoint HPT370 controllers. I wrote that over a year ago, and it supports the RAID's on *BOTH* Promise and HighPoint based controllers. It does have a few issues though in array failure cases, but thats easily fixed, I just need the time to do it... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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