Re: [PATCH] aic79xx should be able to ignore HostRAID enabled adapters

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>]

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:44:15AM -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> > Christoph Hellwig sez:
> > > NACK.  We're not going to support attaching broken propritary drivers.
> > 
> > Understood and expected.
> > 
> > The word 'broken' is hardly chosen for scientific reasons, bespeaks an
> > agenda ;-> Just because you can not see the code, does not mean it is
> > broken.
> > 
> > I have on numerous attempts tried to contact Heinz Mauelshagen to
> > fortify dmraid in support of the HostRAID adapters. He has yet to
> > respond to my emails to start a dialogue with Adaptec.
> 
> None of those here.
> Please forward.

I also sent an email a few weeks ago and haven't heard back yet.

In my message I asked whether it was feasible for you to look at
FreeBSD's "ataraid(4)" driver to learn the Intel ICHx-R SoftRAID format.
I know FreeBSD understands this format, and dmraid did not when I sent
the email.

The hardware I was looking at is ICH7-R. It only works in compatibility
mode, which only saw one drive for some reason.

Bottom line: 3Ware Escalade are cheap enough not to bother with this
SoftRAID stuff...

-- 
Matthias Andree