At 00:38 25/08/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Kenneth Kline wrote:
>>
>> I currently own a box that has a adaptec u2 raid system. It consists of the
>> adaptec raidport III controller aro-1130ca2 on a supermicro p6dgu. I am
>> currently limited to running nt, I want linux back. I have tried to
>> contact redhat, mandrake, adaptec, and supermicro, and several others to
>> ask for some general info on the subject but I haven't heard anything back.
>> I saw on redhats faq that raid on the 78xx chipset is currently not
>> supported. Basic deduction, leads me to believe that their will be soon. I
>> would like to know if anybody knows when/if a drivers for the raidport III
>> controller by adaptec will be function on at the very least raidlevel 0.
>> Any info on any current projects/developement, etc. on the subject would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>
>I don't have a 2.2.x kernel tree available at the moment, but I do see
>support for the 787x line in the 2.3.x kernel. I'm not able to tell you
>whether it's stable or not, but should be by the time 2.4.x rolls around
>(later this year if Linus gets his way)!
>
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Is that raid support or just plain scsi support?
I know you can run linux off a disk attached to
an adaptec raid controller - you just can't use
it for raid. (Very interested in this as I'm a systems
supplier)
