as some of you might know the ips(4) driver aimed to support IBM ServeRAID SATA/SCSI controllers was here starting from 4.1. but due to a nasty bug in the code it was not enabled on any install media.
the snap from the feb 11 contains the updated ips driver with that bug fixed and various other improvements. read the man page to see what controllers are supported. the driver enabled on the installation cd. if you have a machine you always wanted to run openbsd but couldn't because the lack of this driver please give it a try. if everything goes smooth just mail your dmesg to dm...@openbsd.org after install. if you have any problems mail me. before mailing me about the bugs first do a little thing. attach a serial console to the machine having the problems. type in the boot prompt: boot> boot -d then in the ddb prompt: ddb> w ips_debug 0xff ddb> c you should see a lot of debug messages on the console which will help me to debug your problem. grab them all and add to your mail. the tree will be locked for the 4.5 release very soon so if you want to have a stable ServeRAID support in 4.5 please test it asap. thanks. -- Alexander Yurchenko
