On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Josh Fishman wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Welcome back to the continuing saga of the DPT SmartRAID-V and its
> elusive Linux driver! Tune in this week as Josh finds a binary-only
> (in fact, form of RedHat 5.x install disks w/ driver in modules.cgz)
> driver for kernel 2.0.36 -- which is useless for his server running
> kernel 2.2.5!
If you grab the source, you get copies of the source for eata_dma too.
Download the 2.0.26 kernel source from kernel.org
> Watch as he calls tech support, only to be told that the source code
> for the driver has been released as GPL, for eventual inclusion in
> mainstream kernels ... but no-one can say where the code is, only
> that a copy has been sent to a mysterious figure known only as ...
> ``The Author''.
Of course, it was developed outside DPT.
> (In their favor, the tech guy who called me today said that the
> whole tech support staff spent the weekend installing this driver
> under Linux so they'd know how to answer Linux-related questions.
> DPT seems to be serious about making nice with ``The Community''.)
>
> Anyway: is anyone here ``The Author''? Can anyone point me to the
> source so I can get my RAID on line? Or do I have to go and write
> a nasty web page about DPT despite their recent Linux support efforts?
>
> Thanks again,
> Josh Fishman
> NYU / RLab
>
>
Tom
