From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 5 08:28:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA24153 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:28:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA24144 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA06373; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:28:18 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:28:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609051528.JAA06373@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd), freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news In-Reply-To: <199609050632.XAA11365@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> References: <199609050632.XAA11365@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > > Linux also has a DPT driver. Maybe it could be ported as a lkm. > > > > BSDI has a DPT driver. That would be a better place to start. > > BSDI's drive would be a very dangerous place to start unless you are > familiar with proper ``white room'' techniques to protect yourself > from copyright infringement. The BSDI code is covered by a strict > and very inforcable copyright. Even reading the code, and then going > into another room and writting a drive could lead to copyright violation. Actually, no. The BSDi DPT driver was made publically available by DPT, not by BSDi. Nate