From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 1 8:16:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gemma.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (gemma.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.136.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAD214FF2; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 08:16:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oschonef@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) Received: from frizzantino.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (frizzantino.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.133.65]) by gemma.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1/TechFak/pk+ro19980721) with SMTP id RAA09914; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:16:31 +0100 (MET) From: Oliver Schonefeld Received: by frizzantino.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (SMI-8.6/pk970604A) id RAA23768; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:16:30 +0100 Message-Id: <200001011616.RAA23768@frizzantino.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Subject: Re: ida driver in -current and eisa bus attachment To: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 1 Jan 100 17:16:30 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199912312040.MAA02777@mass.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Dec 31, 99 12:40:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > i wonder what is happening to the ida driver for comapq's smart array > > controller series. > > Work on this driver is stalled owing to the fact that nobody that can and > wants to work on it has access to the Compaq hardware required. You > can't use these controllers except in Compaq systems, which makes things > very difficult. that's true :-( > If someone has a complete system featuring one or more of these > controllers (a mixed PCI/EISA system would be best), there are several > people that could put it to good use. well, as you meight have guesses, i own one of these nice little compaq servers. unfortunatly it is an eisa-only version. the good thing is i own two compaq smart array controllers (right now, one is in the machine) and the computer is accessible via internet. for people willing to develop the drivers, i offer access to this machine since i doubt there are any developters living in my town and sending the server to the states is no option. -- -------------------------------------------------------- And remember: "Life sucks and then you die!" email: oschonef@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de olli@psychopathen.org -------------------------------------------------------- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me in your ~/.signature to help me spread! <- Save this lifeform ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message