Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:01:38 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "V. T. Mueller" <freebsd-amd64@datafarm.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone successfully using an icp-vortex / iir controller? Message-ID: <44025D82.8020601@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <44006B63.9040503@datafarm.de> 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> <44006B63.9040503@datafarm.de>
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V. T. Mueller wrote: > 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 FWIW, I almost have the problem fixed. Scott
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