anyone successfully using an icp-vortex / iir controller?

[V. T. Mueller]

Hello John-Mark,

John-Mark Gurney schrieb:
> V. T. Mueller wrote this message on Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:11 +0100:
>>Well, what's the plan regarding the iir driver now? I would suspect 
>>that letting folks rendering their servers unfunctional by upgrading 
>>memory is not really a good strategy.
>>The manpage lists two authors/maintainers, I emailed both early this 
>>week. Achim Leubner will be back from vacation the 27th. So maybe he 
>>can contribute s/th constructive.
> 
> Good lucky with it...  The iir has been a pain for us (my employer
> nCircle) for the last two years...  They were completely unhelpful in
> finding out the v1.10 of iir.c was necessary to stablize our servers
> (it's worse for us since the servers are at customer's sites)..  When
> we tried to upgrade from 4.x to 5.4-R we were unable to as the iir card
> would go out to lunch never to return (it has multiple commands
> outstanding, none would complete)..   Oh, and when we told them 5.4-R,
> they were sorry, we don't support anything past 5.2-R on our cards..
> so you might as well stop using their cards...

Not before I did try all possible means... ;)

> As for driver rewrite.. it's obviously very necessary, and we have
> been trying to get one done, but have been unable to find the correct
> people to pay that are able to get it done...

I think I have someone. maybe we could team up in hiring them. 
Monday I should have more information, gonna get back to you then.

Kind regards,
vt