+1 Aaron
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:39 -0700, "Alta Elstad" <[email protected]> wrote: > We are seeking the endorsement of the Device Drivers and Storage > communities for > a new project: Promise SuperTrak RAID HBA Driver > > The purpose of this project is to provide early access to a Solaris > driver that > will enable RAID on OpenSolaris systems with Promise SATA and SAS/SATA > RAID > PCI-express controller hardware. > > The sts driver ("SuperTrak Storage" HBA) belongs to the SATA/SAS line of > Host > Bus Adapters that provide hardware RAID storage. The sts driver was a > jointly > developed CDDL driver based on BSD source version by Promise. Sun paid > for > contract work to produce the driver under CDDL by Dexcel Corp in India. > This > line of cards features Intel I/O processors for SATA-only and SAS/SATA > (aka > Brockton and Sunrise Lake). An sts6 driver for next generation HBA that > has 6 > Gbps interfaces could also be done in this project. > > Promise Technology, Inc. (http://www.promise.com/) is a storage HBA > vendor that > provides both small business to large enterprise storage HBAs and > finished > Storage Arrays. Often known as a price-performance leader in RAID > storage. They > currently provide Solaris-Ready certified VTrak storage subsystems. > > According to Article VIII of the OpenSolaris Constitution, we need three > +1 > votes from Core Contributors in each of these two communities within 72 > hours > and no -1 votes. Since the U.S. has a holiday, the deadline for endorsing > this > proposed project is 5pm Pacific Time Wednesday, July 8. > > Project leaders: > James Liu (gdude) > Qiming Zhu (qmingz) > Garden Liang (will register) > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss -- Aaron Dailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
