Hi everyone,
Welcome back to the continuing saga of the DPT SmartRAID-V and its
elusive Linux driver! Tune in this week as Josh finds a binary-only
(in fact, form of RedHat 5.x install disks w/ driver in modules.cgz)
driver for kernel 2.0.36 -- which is useless for his server running
kernel 2.2.5!
Watch as he calls tech support, only to be told that the source code
for the driver has been released as GPL, for eventual inclusion in
mainstream kernels ... but no-one can say where the code is, only
that a copy has been sent to a mysterious figure known only as ...
``The Author''.
(In their favor, the tech guy who called me today said that the
whole tech support staff spent the weekend installing this driver
under Linux so they'd know how to answer Linux-related questions.
DPT seems to be serious about making nice with ``The Community''.)
Anyway: is anyone here ``The Author''? Can anyone point me to the
source so I can get my RAID on line? Or do I have to go and write
a nasty web page about DPT despite their recent Linux support efforts?
Thanks again,
Josh Fishman
NYU / RLab
