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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Areca SATA RAID controller
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Richard Tector wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there are any plans to merge into HEAD the driver for the
> Areca SATA RAID controllers?
> They do supply FreeBSD drivers, including source, at
> ftp://60.248.88.208/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/FreeBSD/DRIVER/ which I have had no
> problems so far using under RELENG_5 though I have yet to test the
> controller and drivers under -CURRENT.

I don't see any PRs with patches.  The source is BSD-licensed so it only
needs an advocate and a committer.

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