From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 23:58:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C76937B40E for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 23:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3B043FE0 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 23:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottl@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4B6t6Z18471 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 23:55:06 -0700 Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com ([10.100.0.149]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17678 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 23:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4B6tkdS002754 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:55:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@hollin.btc.adaptec.com) Received: (from scottl@localhost) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4B6tkWI002753 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:55:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:55:46 -0600 From: Scott Long To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030511065545.GC1832@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: ServeRAID driver now in the tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 06:58:45 -0000 A lot of people have asked about this in the past few months, so I'll just a make a general announcement: At long last, there is support for the IBM ServeRAID line of SCSI RAID controllers. The 'ips' driver can be loaded as a module or compiled into the kernel as noted in /sys/i386/conf/NOTES. I've only tested this driver with a 4L model and only on ia32 (SMP), so more testing is welcomed and encouraged. I'd like to that David Jeffreys and Adaptec for providing this driver. My work on it involved porting it forward to 5.x and fixing a couple of bugs. I hope to get the 4.x version working with the bugfixes in the next week. Hopefully my time for this won't disappear like it has for the past 8 months. Also, while this driver contains a management device, there are no management apps for FreeBSD that I know of at this time. It is also unlikely that any Linux apps will work with this driver, though it's low on my priority list at the moment and I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Scott