> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 26 19:38:08 2001
>
> Has anyone else noticed that the driver files available for download at
> Adaptec are corrupt?
>
> For example:
>
> u160raid_sm_dr_suse70.tgz
> sm_rhat6x_v303_install.tar.Z
>
> Which are the archive driver distributions for Suse and Redhat
> respectively. Each file contains thre RPM files:
>
> DPTAPPS
> DPTDRIVER
> DPTSNMP
>
> The suse tarball complains of trailing garbage in the archive-- making the
> DPTSNMP package corrpupt. This is really of no consequence to me.
> sm_rhat6x_v303_install.tar.Z unarchives with out error and the RPMs all
> install fine. However, the DPTDRIVER RPM contains a file called
> dpt_i2o.tgz, which is supposed to be the source code to the dpt_i2o
> modules which drives the 2100S and other Adaptec RAID cards.
>
> This file is corrupt in both tarballs (SUSE or Redhat).
>
> Luckily, the install CD has a non-corrupt tgz of the dpt_i2o kernel
> diffs. But it's extremely frustrating.
>
> I'm also wondering if anyone has ideas about when the RedHat 7.X driver is
> going to be available? There was mention of it on the list some time ago,
> but nothing has materialized...
Adaptec's support for Linux has been lukewarm, at best (recently),
and nonexistent mostly (for many years until very recently). Given
that track record, it is probably best to avoid their products if
you want to run Linux. In general, the company seems to be all
about cranking out hardware with a bit of afterthought given to
driver support...and Windows driver support coming first.
If anyone at the hardware level of driver development cares to
comment, that would be fabulous. Queries to Adaptec support
have gone unanswered for many weeks.
Cheers,
Chris
--
Chris Mauritz
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