From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 12:30:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18224 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org.142.69.207.in-addr.arpa [207.69.142.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA18193 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:30:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@sendero.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 1364 invoked by uid 1000); 29 May 1998 20:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <509A2986E5C5D111B7DD0060082F32A402FACA@freya.circle.net> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:32:00 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: tcobb Subject: RE: DPT driver fails and panics with Degraded Array Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , Mike Smith , Greg Lehey , Julian Elischer Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-May-98 tcobb wrote: >> I guess this is really something you want to discuss with simon. >> I'm sure he will contact you soon >> He's just finished moving houes and has been out-of-touch fro >> a few weeks >> >> julian > > Yes. > > I am going to contact DPT tomorrow about obtaining the NDA-bound specs > for the board. We have some development talent in-house to commit to > stabilizing this driver. > > Our choices are either: > a) wait for Simon to stabilize the driver > b) try to stabilize the driver ourselves, release code back to FreeBSD > c) scrap FreeBSD on this HA server (Solaris,Linux,NT all have native > support for DPT) > d) scrap DPT and use a SCSI-to-SCSI based RAID solution > > Given our current committment to DPT and FreeBSD so far, I'd prefer a or > b above. > > I'm not confident of a) happening quickly, as Simon appears to be either > busy with other projects or relatively unavailable. Nonsense! You have not contacted me. Your earliest posting was dated yesterday. You continue to voice opinions and provide no data. If I tried to aggrqavate someone purposely, I would hardly find a better way. Simon --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message