From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Oct 28 9:40:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671E4151CD for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00463; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:29:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910281629.JAA00463@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tom Cc: Mike Smith , chris@aims.com.au, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, ken@kdm.org Subject: Re: Porting a SCSI driver from 2.2.x to 3.x In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:32:46 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:29:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > You can't have been looking very hard; all of the major vendors have U2W/ > > LVD controllers and have for many months. In addition you can use most > > of Mylex and AMI's U2W/LVD PCI:SCSI controllers with -current, and I've > > just backported the Mylex driver to -stable as well. > > Yes, there are many U2W RAID cards out there, but very few work with > FreeBSD. -current isn't an option. So that leaves just the Mylex PCI > cards, for which support is pretty new. Would you recommend one for use > in a production server? Good question. The AMI driver is in production on -current at several sites. The backport to -stable was done for a production environment. Until people like yourselves commit to them and provide a teething environment for the driver to mature in, there's no way that it'll get beyond it's current state. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message