Re: Areca Cards?

["Brandon Johns" <brandon.johns@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just out of curiosity, what would it take in your estimation to get
a working driver? or of getting a copy of the driver that Hiten ported?

Thanks,

Brandon.

On 4/20/07, Thomas E. Spanjaard <tgen@netphreax.net> wrote:
> Brandon Johns wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've recently purchased an Areca ARC-1120 PCI-X raid controller
> > and was wondering what the status of drivers were for this
> > card.  I've tried the latest preview tag but was unable to find
> > anything that remotely appeared to be a driver.  If someone could
> > point me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it. I did find in
> > the mail archive something about the driver being ported, but that
> > was all there was. I would love to see just how well this card and
> > a few 320gb drives can perform under DFly.
>
> A year or two ago, Hiten Pandya ported the FreeBSD driver; dunno what
> he's done with the source. I started on rewriting it because it's really
> fugly, but got sidetracked and left it to rot :).
>
> Cheers,
> --
>          Thomas E. Spanjaard
>          tgen@netphreax.net