Re: RAID HW Questions...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 04:07:31 EST


> Well. Since DPT rammed me in the ass with their "SmartRAID V" RAID I need
> to buy a new RAID card. I don't know who to trust. I was told (about 1
> year ago) that DPT was the Co. that liked/worked with the linux community.
> Obviously they don't. I don't a driver for over $12,000 in RAID HW. So,

The driver should be on DPT's site. Im not sure on the current state with the
DPT decade/century/millenium series but source (ugly or otherwise) is around
and I am hoping to get it merged once some headers have been cleaned up.

> supported, I mean not some crap ass driver written by an intern. I want
> something that inspires love from the author. I want a driver that works.
>
> Who out there (for the HW RAID stuff) really works with the Linux Kernel
> Developers? ie What HW vendor?

Currently in kernel
-------------------
IBM write their own drivers for the ServeRAID
AMI/DELL for the MegaRAID
Mylex help Leonard Zubkoff with the DAC960 driver
Compaq write their own drivers for the SMART2 and ISS interfaces
ICP Vortex have been doing their own drivers for their cards back since
        1996 (1.2.13)
DPT have been heling with their older SmartRAID cards and there are drivers
        in kernel

and I may have forgotten some.

The current I2O based smartraid stuff got tangled in some I2O sig sillies about
copyrights on their own header files but thats something I talked with
DPT about and not that hard to fix

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