Take a look at the "dkms" program (in the rpmforge repo). It manages a build environment which makes it easy to keep drivers rebuilt in synch with the kernel. Not sure about adaptec, but my LSI card's drivers came with all the right scripts to plug into dkms.
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Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept.
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