Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:29:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chris@aims.com.au, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, ken@kdm.org Subject: Re: Porting a SCSI driver from 2.2.x to 3.x Message-ID: <199910281629.JAA00463@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:32:46 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910280627400.29929-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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> > You can't have been looking very hard; all of the major vendors have U2W/ > > LVD controllers and have for many months. In addition you can use most > > of Mylex and AMI's U2W/LVD PCI:SCSI controllers with -current, and I've > > just backported the Mylex driver to -stable as well. > > Yes, there are many U2W RAID cards out there, but very few work with > FreeBSD. -current isn't an option. So that leaves just the Mylex PCI > cards, for which support is pretty new. Would you recommend one for use > in a production server? Good question. The AMI driver is in production on -current at several sites. The backport to -stable was done for a production environment. Until people like yourselves commit to them and provide a teething environment for the driver to mature in, there's no way that it'll get beyond it's current state. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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