Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:22:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed Message-ID: <200009042022.NAA05249@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Sep 2000 16:33:19 %2B0200." <v0422080eb5d962bdc164@[195.238.1.121]>
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> > I've just committed a driver for the abovementioned RAID adapter families > > provided by DPT/Adaptec and the long-suffering Mark Salyzyn. The driver > > will be maintained by Adaptec, with a little help from yours truly if > > really necessary. > > Excellent! Any ideas when this might be MFC'd to -STABLE? I'd like to hear a few more success stories first (only one so far) from people using the kit to add the driver to their 4.x systems. With all the breakage in -current's PCI support at the moment, I don't expect to hear too many people there reporting on it just yet. > > With any luck, we should see the complete set of management tools > > available from Adaptec shortly to complement this driver, and I'll be > > backporting to -stable once I'm certain I haven't broken anything with > > this commit, since the driver's already had a long shakedown period. > > Awesome! You mean that we won't have to reboot into DOS (or > PROM) to manage reconfigure this thing? Cool! That's the general plan. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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