On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 18:28:33 -0700, Derek Vadala wrote: > 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. You really need version S96H firmware for IBM DDYS drives. The ASR controllers won't work well without it. See: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=21282+38552+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-scsi/20010114.freebsd-scsi > > 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. As someone else mentioned, if you've having trouble with the driver, you should contact the author -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ken -- Kenneth Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
