From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 28 21:22:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75E8C37B41F for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:22:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3213 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Dec 2001 05:22:42 -0000 From: "Alson van der Meulen" Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 06:22:41 +0100 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Possible Promise FastTrack RAID driver Message-ID: <20011229062241.I11901@alm.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When searching for FreeBSD support for the Promise 20265r (FastTrack RAID, ATA100, integrated on some mainboards), I came across this, it looks like a FreeBSD RAID driver for this controller. It doesn't seem to be an official released driver, this is the only place I've seen it, and the copyright message in some source files appear to forbid any distribution. It might be worth asking Promise if they plan to release a FreeBSD driver shortly though. It's build for FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, but it appears to compile on 4.4-STABLE fine, and since the source is included it shouldn't be difficult to update. I only glanced through the source files, since (nearly) no documentation is provided. If we could get this under BSD license, we might be able to provide real support for the FastTrack RAID (i.e. not simply as IDE controller). I've not been able to test it yet (don't have a FastTrack ATM). The URL of the website: http://www.gigabytenetworking.com/info/DriverDowload.asp (typo is not mine) The driver is at: http://www.gigabytenetworking.com/GBT_Download/Drivers/ft_freeBSD42.tgz Just my 0.02 euro. Any thoughts? Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message