Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

[Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>]

It is a HUGE POS!

The obfustication (sp) level is so high you wonder why.
It may be GPL, but only goes to prove a few points that everyone lost on
me in the past.

OEM drivers in ATA suck!  Their CAM blows goat.

Look at the crap in the stack when Marcelo was suckered into taking a
"Promise Patch".

I have already cut all ties with Promise so here is the deal.
I no longer have to count the number of fingers on my hand between hand
shakes.  IE no extras and not shortages.

I wish you well in your adventures in pain.


Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:

> Some folk I've done some consulting work for bought a zillion
> Promise SATA cards.  They were able to convince Promise to
> release their SATA driver, which was formerly available only as 
> a binary only kernel module, under the terms of the GPL.
> 
> So <drum-roll, trumpets> here it is: the Promise SATA driver for
> the PDC20318, PDC20375, PDC20378, and PDC20618.  This driver is
> released as-is.  It is useful for the
> 
> 	Promise SATA150 TX4
> 	Promise SATA150 TX2plus
> 	Promise SATA 378
> 	Promise Ultra 618
> 
> cards.  As a temporary download location, the GPL'd driver can be
> obtained from http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz
> 
> Have fun!  And many thanks to Promise for contributing the driver
> for their cards!
> 
>  -Erik
> 
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