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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:27:19 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards
Message-ID:  <20060824182719.GB79261@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0608232339x4829d571wac8867b0f3c5f342@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <44EC0B9B.5020705@withagen.nl> <003f01c6c68d$64688e60$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20060824053618.GA7211@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <ef10de9a0608232339x4829d571wac8867b0f3c5f342@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:39:43AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> had nothing but problems with my Promise card. To make matters worse
> Promise doesn't support FreeBSD... No drivers, No docs, Nothing.

eh???  You don't follow FreeBSD very carefully.  Promise sends full docs
to sos@freebsd.org who writes the driver.  

I'd much rather have a talented driver writer who knows FreeBSD coding
style create the driver from vendor docs, than trusting the intern
silicon guy the forced to write code make one.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?



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