On Jun 29,  3:42pm, markr@cat.co.za (Mark Randelhoff) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Escalade 9000 series raid controllers

| > >Has anyone experience with these controllers? How easy would it be to
| > >include support for the 9000 series controllers. My understanding is that
| > >thse are simply a performance upgrade of the 8000 series cards....
| >
| >Add the pci ids and try to boot :-)
| 
| Tried this... I tried both the ids 1000 (ESCALADE) & 1001 (ESCALADE_ASIC).
| 
| On boot the driver reported:
| 
| Jun 29 15:28:47 net20 /netbsd: twe0 at pci2 dev 10 function 0: 3ware Escalade
| Jun 29 15:28:47 net20 /netbsd: twe0: interrupting at irq 11
| Jun 29 15:28:47 net20 /netbsd: twe0: reset not reported
| Jun 29 15:28:47 net20 /netbsd: twe0: reset failed
| 
| Does this imply that there is no simple kernel modification to support the 
| escalade 9000 series ?
| If so, are there any immediate plans to include the 9000 series ?
| 
| Thanks
| M

It means that the hardware is different and someone will need to modify
the driver or write a new driver depending on how different they are.
I don't know how different they are.

christos