ICP driver with FreeBSD 4.x ...

Tue Dec 13 09:00:45 PST 2005

** On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:57:12 -0400 (AST), "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> said:

Marc> I've been trying to get icpcon available at
Marc> http://www.vortex.de/english/download/rz_neu/freebsd/frbsd_e.htm
Marc> to work on my 4.x-STABLE server ... after talking to the techs,
Marc> I've been told that I have to install the driver available on
Marc> that web page, since the one in 4.x is outdated ...

Yup, the only way we've gotten icpcon to work on 4.x systems is to
replace the FreeBSD iir with the one from ICP.

Marc> Can someone comment on the safety of upgrading that driver to
Marc> the one that they have on their web site on a live server?  Are
Marc> there any ramifications, or risks, with doing this?

We have had no problems at all using ICP's driver on 4.x systems. Our
procedure is to put the iir device into the kernel and replace the
contents of the /usr/src/sys/dev/iir directory with ICP's. We have not
tried the kernel module.

We have ICP cards (the 4 port SATA GDT8546RZ card) in both 4.11 and
4.10 systems.

(We also have them on 5.4 and 6.0 systems with the stock FreeBSD iir
driver, and an updated icpcon package from ICP works fine with those.)