Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:24:19 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn_mark@dpt.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dpt scsi smartraid iv controller, in raid 5 mode... ? Message-ID: <19990819142419.A15358@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <199908191539.AA17493@bohica.dpt.com>; from Mark Salyzyn on Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 11:39:37AM -0400 References: <199908191539.AA17493@bohica.dpt.com>
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On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 11:39:37AM -0400, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > >> also there is rumor of support for the raid v card 'soon'. > >Yes. There is a rumour. > > No rumor, I released the driver to any who would ask for it on > August 3 and announced it here and in freebsd-hardware. Currently, > only Mirapoint has taken to testing the driver. It sounds maybe like DPT is the kind of company that listens to customer feedback, so I'll mention this in case you have an opportunity to pass it on. The reason I haven't gone with the V stuff is because we need to be able to run an up-to-date version of FreeBSD (that means 3.x-STABLE right now). IIRC the driver that came out was for the dead 2.2 branch. We're buying two big (Pentium III, 256MB RAM, 4 x 9GB) machines this afternoon, and they're going to end up with Adaptec 3950U2Bs in them because the DPT stuff we have drivers for is too expensive. I prefer DPT, and hopefully for the next machine there will be CAM support for the newer cards. I'm not complaining, just providing a real-world example where a port to 3.x would have helped. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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