In a message dated: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:52:13 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>> I've been staying away from Adaptec adapters because so many problems
>> were reported with the Linux device drivers.
>
> Interesting. I have used nothing *but* Adaptec HAs, and in 30+ systems,
>not had a single problem. Granted, these are mostly the more recent
>AIC-7800 based cards, but I even remember using an Adaptec VLB host adapter
>specifically because other brands would not work.
Adaptec has definitely gone down hill. We've been using TekRam and
QLogic cards here with great success. Adaptec has had a lot of
problems, especially with Linux drivers. There was one person
maintaining his own drivers for linux, then Adaptec came along and
said, "Hey, we'll take this over from you, we'd really like to
maintain our own drivers for Linux!" then they went no where with
them for quite some time.
Ironically, if you have any HP related equipment, especially tape
drives, they *WILL NOT* work with anything *but* Adaptec :( So much
for SCSI being an open standard. HP has built their tape drive units
to explicitly work with only Adaptec cards!
--
Seeya,
Paul
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