I've got an Adaptec 2100S RAID card. I'm using the current 1.14
drivers, which work fine with Red Hat's 2.2.14-5.0 kernel, but when you
load the driver in Red Hat's 2.2.16-3 kernel, it oopses the kernel.
Is this expected, and if so, when will there be a driver out that won't
do this? I need to upgrade to something more recent for various
reasons, one of which is that RH's 2.2.14-5.0 kernel has a known data
corruption issue under heavy load with this card. The official fix was
to upgrade to 2.2.14-6.1, but that's no longer available on the download
sites. Even 2.2.14-12 would work, but I can't find that, either.
In case you're wondering why I must stick with RH kernels, this machine
also has a very uncommon piece of hardware in it which only has binary
drivers available. The hardware's maker has agreed to re-build it for
any RH kernel, but probably won't re-build it not for a non-RH kernel,
since they don't want to support other Linuxes. I suppose they'd
re-build it for a Linus kernel if I asked.
Above all, though, I'm feeling lucky to get any Linux support from these
guys at all, as they are historically an NT-only company. I'm not going
to press my luck asking them to rebuild the driver every few days. So,
any solution has to be fairly solid. I'm not in the market for
bleeding-edge beta driver testing.
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