Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:58:05 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Tim Gustafson <tim@netspaces.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about Adaptec AAA-131U RAID Controller Message-ID: <4.1.19991116195526.03bc1950@granite.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <199911170050.AAA65848@bigbird.netspaces.net> References: <3831f7e9.730239288@mail.sentex.net> <MAIL199911162007.UAA58679@bigbird.netspaces.net> <MAIL199911162007.UAA58679@bigbird.netspaces.net>
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At 07:49 PM 11/16/99 , Tim Gustafson wrote: >Is the DPT card no good? I guess that's my main concern. I never heard of >DPT until I checked the hardware list. Out of curiosity, do you know why >FreeBSD is not choosing to support the Adaptec card? I consider Adaptec to >be somewhat of a defacto standard when it comes to SCSI/RAID controllers, >and I can't imagine why it wasn't one the first ones supported. No idea about the quality of the DPT cards. I have heard good things about the hardware, but its the quality of drivers that ultimately must also be considered. As for the Adaptec, its not a matter of wanting to support it or not, its a matter of does Adaptec release programming information about the workings of the controller to the developer community so that they can then write a driver for it. My understanding is that Adaptec has chosen not to do this, or at least not to do it in a way that would conform with BSD licensing requirements. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 519 651 3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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