anyone successfully using an icp-vortex / iir controller?

[Scott Long]

V. T. Mueller wrote:

> 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

FWIW, I almost have the problem fixed.

Scott