About the 'only' working RAID driver available at this time are ICP-VORTEX (GDTH in the kernel). Expensive but very fast.
Peter -- www.linuxalpha.org www.alphadriven.org Peter Petrakis Warrior/Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "<BLAM!!> Who the hell are you!? Name's Ash <click clock> Housewares..." > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Christopher C. Chimelis > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 7:16 AM > To: campbell steven > Cc: debian-alpha > Subject: Re: More DAC960 woes.... > > > > On 31 Jan 2002, campbell steven wrote: > > > I suppose that if i can't get this to work i will have to try and get a > > differnent brand of controller, I can get an AMI 466 (i think it is) > > Raid controller, anyone had any experience with these under Alpha? > > I don't know about DAC960's, unfortunately, but I do know the AMI > "megaraid" line pretty well (too well, unfortunately). Right now and > probably forever, AMI megaraid-family controllers are unsupported on > Alpha-Linux. I ported the driver when I worked at API, but AMI was > unwilling to release some info that is vital to the card's initialisation > to me (even under NDA). So the driver will see the card, but the card > can't initialise itself into a known state and therefore doesn't work. > > The funniest part of the whole thing is that they kept my changes in the > driver that they release, but didn't want to reciprocate by giving me > the last "piece of the puzzle" nor did they really even want to supply > any details on the newer cards (I was trying to get one of their U2W > cards working)... > > I tried very hard to change their minds, but in the end it proved a waste > of time, unfortunately. > > C > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
