On Sat, 26 May 2001, ritz wrote:
> 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.
Unfortunately I'm reviewing the thing and don't have the luxury of picking
another card. This doesn't bode well. I just noticed when looking at 2.4.5
that the aic7xxx driver has been replaced with a new driver 'sponsored by
adaptec'. I've had very good luck with all their non-RAID SCSI cards under
Linux, including the 39160 which I picked up recently. I hope things don't
take a turn for the worse.
The 2100S has been nothing but a pain so far. In addition to all the
oddball driver issues, there is apparently some strange issue when using
IBM drives (DDYS in particular) with the 2100S series (3100 as
well). Drives like to drop out of arrays without warning and without doing
anything but power-cycling.
> 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.
I haven't even been able to get the tech support forms to submit an
inquiry.
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Derek Vadala, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.cynicism.com/~derek
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