Subject: Re: Raid: DPT SmartCache IV (PM2044UM) PCI Drivers for NetBSD
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@cyberstation.ca>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/05/1998 21:47:58
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>Greetings:
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>Does anyone have any experience with the:
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>	DPT SmartCache IV (PM2044UM) PCI
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>Ultra-Wide SCSI Raid controller under NetBSD?
>
>Unfortunately, some idiot decided to buy a few of these, and I am left
>trying to support these under NetBSD.  There are drivers for these units
>for SCO and BSDI.  And I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to port the
>BSDI drivers to NetBSD and build a working kernel with them.

Porting the FreeBSD driver will probably be easier than porting from BSDI.
FreeBSD has a similar SCSI framework to NetBSD whereas BSDI wrote their
own some time ago.

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Justin