I would repeat the same.  The FreeBSD driver is quite mature (relatively
speaking), and significantly closer to working with NetBSD than either
of the other two.

I have a DPT controller (EISA) and a potentially mostly functional EISA
486 motherboard that I will donate to anyone who _can_ and _will_ port
the FreeBSD driver.  If you can't make that definite commitment, then
please don't ask for the hardware.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin T. Gibbs [mailto:gibbs@plutotech.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 1998 8:48 PM
To: Alicia da Conceicao

>>Does anyone have any experience with the:
>>	DPT SmartCache IV (PM2044UM) PCI
>>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.

The "idiot" actually bought one of the highest performance SCSI adapters
you can buy.  It's just unfortunate that nobody has been able to spend
time porting the driver to NetBSD.

>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.