I had some serious problems with these cards and IBM 10k scsi drives. Make
sure that you call and check your IBM drive firmware revision (checking the
website doens't help)... also, take a look at http://linux.adaptec.com -
good info there.
Micah
On Wed, 02 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, ritz wrote:
>
> > I have a consulting customer who seems rather insistent on
> > using these rather than the equivalent Mylex acceleraid
> > card. Anyone using these in production? Are the drivers
> > as mature as Leonard's buslogic/mylex code?
>
> We have a few of each (Adaptec and Mylex) in production.
>
> The Adaptecs seem to work. The only PITA with them is the driver is not
> part of the standard kernels, so for any kernel upgrade, you have to
> either use Adaptec's binary driver or get their source and build it
> yourself. This also makes distribution upgrades a pain. Either wait for
> an Adaptec driver disk for the distribution, or build your own.
>
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