From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 14:29:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9C916A420 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:29:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-amd64@datafarm.de) Received: from mr0.continum.net (mr0.continum.net [80.72.128.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0039143D64 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:29:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-amd64@datafarm.de) Received: from tecgate.frbh.continum.net ([80.72.130.254] helo=[192.168.100.70]) by mr0.continum.net with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FD0QZ-000L6P-CN; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:29:43 +0100 Message-ID: <44006B63.9040503@datafarm.de> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:36:19 +0100 From: "V. T. Mueller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John-Mark Gurney References: <3.0.1.32.20060222094147.00a928a0@pop.redshift.com> <20060224021327.H1005@ganymede.hub.org> <20060224064125.GA1782@xor.obsecurity.org> <43FEC2D9.7090407@samsco.org> <43FEDBC4.3010103@datafarm.de> <20060224200359.GD840@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060224200359.GD840@funkthat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone successfully using an icp-vortex / iir controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:29:56 -0000 Hello John-Mark, John-Mark Gurney schrieb: > V. T. Mueller wrote this message on Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:11 +0100: >>Well, what's the plan regarding the iir driver now? I would suspect >>that letting folks rendering their servers unfunctional by upgrading >>memory is not really a good strategy. >>The manpage lists two authors/maintainers, I emailed both early this >>week. Achim Leubner will be back from vacation the 27th. So maybe he >>can contribute s/th constructive. > > Good lucky with it... The iir has been a pain for us (my employer > nCircle) for the last two years... They were completely unhelpful in > finding out the v1.10 of iir.c was necessary to stablize our servers > (it's worse for us since the servers are at customer's sites).. When > we tried to upgrade from 4.x to 5.4-R we were unable to as the iir card > would go out to lunch never to return (it has multiple commands > outstanding, none would complete).. Oh, and when we told them 5.4-R, > they were sorry, we don't support anything past 5.2-R on our cards.. > so you might as well stop using their cards... Not before I did try all possible means... ;) > As for driver rewrite.. it's obviously very necessary, and we have > been trying to get one done, but have been unable to find the correct > people to pay that are able to get it done... I think I have someone. maybe we could team up in hiring them. Monday I should have more information, gonna get back to you then. Kind regards, vt