From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Mar 24 17:19:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from gordius.gordian.com (gordius.gordian.com [192.73.220.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132DB14EFC for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:19:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@gordian.com) X-bait: aablmeh@gordian.com,mmblmeh@gordian.com,zzblmeh@gordian.com Received: from delphi.gordian.com (delphi.gordian.com [192.73.220.125]) by gordius.gordian.com (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id RAA07349 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from gordian.com (asclepius [192.73.220.254]) by delphi.gordian.com (8.7.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA03732 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:19:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36F98F1E.638638D1@gordian.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:19:26 -0800 From: Steve Khoo Organization: Gordian; Santa Ana Heights, CA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID V Century References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does anyone know what the status of DPT SmartRAID V driver project is? Is it close to release? Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Andre Oppermann, On 20-Jan-99 you wrote: > > Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > Greg Lehey, On 19-Jan-99 you wrote: > > -snip- > > > > SmartRAID III and SmartRAID IV. Shimon's working on a driver for > > > > the > > > > V, but it'll be a while yet. > > > > > > Yup. Some good news: > > > > > > * I should be able to devote some more time to it. > > > * I am making good progress > > > * I received some great great help > > > * A way to release the drivers in source is crystalizing > > > > Cool! But how does that translate into release dates? I have to build > > a box within the next 2-3 weeks... > > If you need to deploy a mission critical DPT solution, until further > notice, use the SmartCache IV. It will be few weeks before coding is done > on the V series, and even then it will have to go through weeks of testing, > stress-testing and more testing. RAID solutions are typically deployed > when one really hates data loss. Use a proven technology until I gather > the courage and confidence to recommend the new generation. > > Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG > 770.265.7340 > Simon Shapiro > > Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message