Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:07:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE) Message-ID: <200008270607.XAA09023@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 02:12:44 %2B0200." <v04220806b5ce0c63699e@[10.0.1.2]>
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> I'm curious -- what kinds of cards are supported by this routine? > Does this include the DPT SmartRAID V, as well as the older SmartRAID > IV? I've got an anonymous ftp server I need to rebuild -- it had > previously been running Slackware Linux, but as the kernel got > updated, the source for the driver didn't, so I scrapped it and am > rebuilding with FreeBSD. The Linux driver for the V and VI cards is (according to a reliable source) pretty awful. > Anyway, my thought was actually to scrap the DPT card (because it > was my understanding that the FreeBSD drivers for the SmartRAID V > were only "beta" quality), and simply use vinum instead. However, if > this card is better supported than I first thought, then I'll be glad > to keep it. ;-) I have theoretically production-quality drivers from Adaptec which I will be committing as soon as I have time to test them (a few days, I hope). -- ... 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-current" in the body of the message
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