There are firmware issues with certain IBM firmware revisions and the
Adaptec RAID cards. I'd forgotten about that...but we had to get new
firmware from IBM (and a DOS program to flash the drives) for a bunch of
our drives before the system would run properly.
On Wed, 2 May 2001, ritz wrote:
> That's EXTREMELY useful information to have as the servers are
> all being spec'ed with IBM 10k SCA drives. What was the issue
> exactly?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 2 13:02:10 2001
> >
> > 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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