From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 8 10:56:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-89-56.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.89.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D97937B623 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12793; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200008081807.LAA12793@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mikel Cc: fBSD-hw Subject: Re: 3ware ata raid In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:00:15 EDT." <39904AAF.7C56441D@ocsny.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:07:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Ok so I found 3ware who happen to have a card that is supported however > they have pretty much discontinued that series of cards. The new series > is supported under certain linuxes, so I am curious if anyone could > venture a guess as to how hard it would be to port the linux code? And > of course would anyone like to do it? The 6x00 family cards have the same interface as the 5x00 family cards; they even have the same PCI IDs. The existing driver already works. The only reason this isn't listed in the 4.1 release notes etc. is that my sample card didn't arrive until after 4.1 was put to sleep. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message