I've read everything that I can find regarding support of the Highpoint controllers RAID functionality under Linux, and I understand what the issues have been. The one promising bit of information that I dug up in this process is that the 'pseudo' RAID functionality of the Highpoint and Promise IDE RAID controllers is now supported in FreeBSD (4.2-RELEASE and 5.0-CURRENT). My question is, can the new BSD code be leveraged to add support for these controllers to the Linux kernel, and could we reasonably expect to see such support in the near future? (I think that most all of the relevant/important bits are in ata-raid.c and/or ata-raid.h. In any event, the IDE/ATA guy over on the FreeBSD side is Soren Schmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and he wrote all of the stuff for this. It is my understanding that he got all of the info on how Highpoint lays out the geometry of the array directly from Highpoint, and that they were "very forthcoming" with whatever information that the FreeBSD team asked for. There are also indications of support in OpenBSD and NetBSD's pciide driver, based on work done by Chris Cappuccio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Manuel Bouyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])) Please CC: me directly on any replies, and Thanks very much in advance. -- ______________________________________________________________________ /*** ________________________________________________________________ ***\ Raymond Carney <> Discovery consists of seeing what everybody [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. 860.774.1939 <> - Albert Von Szent-Gyorgyi ________________________________________________________________ \***______________________________________________________________________***/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/