Nick Kay wrote:
>
> 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)!
> >
> >--
>
> 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)
That's a good question, and I completely missed that part in your
original post. Here's the only thing mentioned about RAID in the
aic7xxx driver code:
aic7xxx.c: "Adaptec AIC-7810 Hardware RAID Controller", /*
AIC_7810 */
aic7xxx.c: if ( i == 0 ) /* We found one, but it's the 7810 RAID
cont. */
aic7xxx.c: printk(KERN_INFO "aic7xxx: The 7810 RAID
controller is not
"
It's probably not very helpful... sorry!
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