From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 16:57:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0945F14C1A for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:57:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA19260; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:57:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19991116195526.03bc1950@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:58:05 -0500 To: Tim Gustafson From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: question about Adaptec AAA-131U RAID Controller Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199911170050.AAA65848@bigbird.netspaces.net> References: <3831f7e9.730239288@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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