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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:22:39 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Anthony Rubin <jedi@enteract.com>
Cc:        advocacy@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD driver for DPT SmartRAID V
Message-ID:  <19990930112239.B6954@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <004f01bf0aef$4384c760$010210ac@arrubin>
References:  <004f01bf0aef$4384c760$010210ac@arrubin>

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On [19990930 08:14], Anthony Rubin (jedi@enteract.com) wrote:
>With the release of the Linux driver for the DPT SmartRAID V cards I imagine
>it is just a matter of time before we have a FreeBSD driver.  I sent the
>following message to DPT.
>
>>I know this may be a long shot, but here goes.  What would be the
>>possibilites of a FreeBSD driver for your SmartRAID V series?  I know one
>>will probably be created eventually now that you released your Linux driver
>>with source, but I was hoping for one in the next month or so that I could
>>purchase a SmartRAID V for use in a FreeBSD box that I have.  Thanks in
>>advance.

If not, bug for tech-docs to be released free of NDA, whereas the
FreeBSD hacker community will code the driver. This will impose no
support for the driver upon DPT. Make sure to emphasize that.

Another long shot. But it worked for other companies =)

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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