> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 26 21:28:51 2001
>
> 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.
Yeah, I read about that as well, though newer drives are supposed to have
a more recent/Adaptec-friendly firmware rev. I've more or less given up
on the 2100/3200 cards at this point. If you can't depend on the vendor
to either (a) help someone write an open source driver or (b) be
Johnny-on-the-spot with driver updates to keep up with the times, it is
rather pointless to use the product.
> > 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.
You can always call their "per incident" tech support line and PAY
to have someone tell you they don't know the answer (tried that too).
The light at the end of the tunnel is the Mylex acceleraid 170/352 cards.
They are functionally equivalent to the Adaptec parts (in terms of their
raw processor speed and number of channels supported) and Leonard Z is
fabulous about keeping the drivers current.
Cheers,
C
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Chris Mauritz
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