Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

Milan Roubal
2003-07-25T03:29:33Z

Hi Erik,
great job!! I can report succes, my card
Promise SATA 150 TX2plus is now
working, tested with Seagate ST312002
and Western Digital WD1200JD
Tested with SuSE 8.1 SMP kernel
Thanx for good work
Milan Roubal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Andersen" <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:45 PM
Subject: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

> Some folk I've done some consulting work for bought a zillion
> Promise SATA cards. They were able to convince Promise to
> release their SATA driver, which was formerly available only as
> a binary only kernel module, under the terms of the GPL.
>
> So <drum-roll, trumpets> here it is: the Promise SATA driver for
> the PDC20318, PDC20375, PDC20378, and PDC20618. This driver is
> released as-is. It is useful for the
>
> Promise SATA150 TX4
> Promise SATA150 TX2plus
> Promise SATA 378
> Promise Ultra 618
>
> cards. As a temporary download location, the GPL'd driver can be
> obtained from http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz
>
> Have fun! And many thanks to Promise for contributing the driver
> for their cards!
>
> -Erik
>
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> Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/
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