[SiI SATARaid Linux device driver ver 1.0.0.20 Release]

Driver Files IMG:    [distribution]sii6514.img	
Driver Files TGZ:    [distribution]sii6514_rhdd.tgz  
Driver Dates:        11/06/03

Features:

1. Support RedHat 7.3/8.0/9.0 and SuSE 8.1/8.2
2. Support Mirrored Set and Striped Set.
3. Support hot-plug for member of Mirrored Set.
4. Support SiI3x14 chipset.
5. Support of multiply instances of controller (up to 4)
6. Support of ATA/ATAPI devices in PIO,MDMA and UDMA modes
7. Automatic selection of highest data transfer mode
8. CHS, LBA and 48 bit addressing
9. Supports commands on each channel simultaneously.
10. IOCTL calls support
11. Shutdown notification
12. Support of boot parameters
13. SMP support
14. JAVA RAID GUI
15. BIGMEM support
16. Support for RAID 1+0 and up to 4 DRIVES per Controller

Limitations:
 
1. No ATAPI device support.
2. Don't support old Maxtor drive in UDMA 6 due to Maxtor's firmware bug.
3. Mod15Write fix for Seagate Drives (for chipset versions 3112 1.21 or older)
4. Make sure open source driver for SiI SATA drives is disabled (3112 only)

Fixes: 

1.0.0.10
1. Changed Debounce Timer from 50 ms to 500 ms 
2. Added support for Symmetric Multiprocessing  (SMP) (multiple CPUs)
3. Fix Memory Address Space from 256 to 512 bytes (3x12 SATA)
4. Added Wrapper Support. Allows Driver to be compiled with different Kernel
   Versions (OEM version only)

1.0.0.11
1. Support for 7.3 Vero Beach

1.0.0.12
1. JAVA RAID GUI SUPPORT
2. IRQ Sharing (Multi Chipset sharing IRQ)
3. One PCITABLE for all chipsets
4. Started Adding SuSE tree
5. Driver Supports 64bit Kernels

1.0.0.13
1. 9.0 Support
2. Fix IRQ Sharing Super Micro using RAID

1.0.0.14

1. Fix MetaData Write Bug when in MIRROR RAID (RAID 1)
2. Added UL and SuSE distributions
3. Significant cleanup of scripting files
4. More Documentation

1.0.0.15
 1. Fixed Shutdown from graphical interface missing
     SYS_OFF
 2. Fixes for 64bit RAID bugs
 3. Added 8.0 SuSE
 4. Bigmem Support 
 5. Added SuSE 8.1 and 8.2 Pro (Intel)
 6. Added UnitedLinux 1.0 SMP/64 bit architectures

1.0.0.16

 1. Make all modules non-GPL
 2. Added partial support for 2.4.20-6 (RH 9.0 retail)
 3. Wrapper tested

1.0.0.17
 1. Support for 3x14 chipset.
 2. SuSE 8.2 SMP/64 bit support

1.0.0.18
 1. New RAID software
 2. New GUI

1.0.0.19
 1. Improved GUI
 2. New BIOS required to avoid SYNC problem 

1.0.0.20
 1. Fix bug where channels 0 and 2 did not kick auto rebuild on insertion
 2. Disable sub-vendor sub-id test