Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

Shawn
2003-07-23T02:24:08Z

Holy piss Andre, you've got to be one of the funnier kernel guys...

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:59, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> It is a HUGE POS!
>
> The obfustication (sp) level is so high you wonder why.
> It may be GPL, but only goes to prove a few points that everyone lost on
> me in the past.
>
> OEM drivers in ATA suck! Their CAM blows goat.
>
> Look at the crap in the stack when Marcelo was suckered into taking a
> "Promise Patch".
>
> I have already cut all ties with Promise so here is the deal.
> I no longer have to count the number of fingers on my hand between hand
> shakes. IE no extras and not shortages.
>
> I wish you well in your adventures in pain.
>
>
> Andre Hedrick
> LAD Storage Consulting Group
>
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> > 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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