RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce A. Locke
Thanks to everyone who responded. The aacard driver patches that were in the Redhat pinstripe kernel SRPM work fine with 2.2.17. The machine seems pretty stable and speed is about the same as with the binary driver. Thanks again...

RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce A. Locke
Thanks to everyone who responded. The aacard driver patches that were in the Redhat pinstripe kernel SRPM work fine with 2.2.17. The machine seems pretty stable and speed is about the same as with the binary driver. Thanks again...

RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-18 Thread Matt_Domsch
To: Jon Mitchell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers? Though I am concerned about the KNOWNBUGS file that was in the 1.0.3 patch but was removed by the later version patches. It seems to indicate its a bad idea to compile it directly in the kernel. Is it better to compile

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-18 Thread Bruce A. Locke
As a matter of fact I already have such a kernel compiled but I need to be there in person to make sure it doesn't blow up. :) There were four files: linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.3.patch linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.3-paths.patch linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.4.patch linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.5.patch The

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-18 Thread Jon Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:40:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The aacraid driver was submitted to Alan Cox, but rejected because it has > too many "NTism's" in it, which are being addressed. Please see the Red Hat > Linux "Pinstripe" beta kernel source RPM for the source code, or contact

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-18 Thread Jon Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:40:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The aacraid driver was submitted to Alan Cox, but rejected because it has too many "NTism's" in it, which are being addressed. Please see the Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe" beta kernel source RPM for the source code, or contact me

RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-18 Thread Matt_Domsch
To: Jon Mitchell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers? Though I am concerned about the KNOWNBUGS file that was in the 1.0.3 patch but was removed by the later version patches. It seems to indicate its a bad idea to compile it directly in the kernel. Is it better to compile

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Bruce A. Locke
So does this mean that the driver currently in redhat's pinstripe beta should be avoided on an production SMP system? Is sticking with 2.2.14 perferable right now? Anyone know how far along the adaptec guys are? Thanks for your time... On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > AFAIK, Dell

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Alan Cox
> So does this mean that the driver currently in redhat's pinstripe beta > should be avoided on an production SMP system? Is sticking with 2.2.14 > perferable right now? Anyone know how far along the adaptec guys are? Im quite sure the same bug is in there binary only drivers too. I thinl it

RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The aacraid driver was submitted to Alan Cox, but rejected because it has > too many "NTism's" in it, which are being addressed. Please see the Red Hat > Linux "Pinstripe" beta kernel source RPM for the source code, or contact me > privately. In

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Bruce A. Locke wrote: > > Hello... > > The organization I do some work for purchased a rackmount server from > Dell with the intent of running some webconferencing software under > Linux. The salesman we had spoken to assured us that Linux fully > supported the machine.

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Alan Cox
> AFAIK, Dell wrote these drivers themselfs and they are unwilling to release The drivers for the percraid have adaptec copyrights and have been made available finally but were too ugly at the moment to merge (and had some obvious potentially nasty bugs like using down() on a spinlock The

RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Matt_Domsch
The aacraid driver was submitted to Alan Cox, but rejected because it has too many "NTism's" in it, which are being addressed. Please see the Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe" beta kernel source RPM for the source code, or contact me privately. Sincerely, Matt Domsch Dell Enterprise Systems Group Linux

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Wakko Warner
> The organization I do some work for purchased a rackmount server from > Dell with the intent of running some webconferencing software under > Linux. The salesman we had spoken to assured us that Linux fully > supported the machine. Yeah... Right... :) > > Now it seems I'm stuck with a

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Wakko Warner
The organization I do some work for purchased a rackmount server from Dell with the intent of running some webconferencing software under Linux. The salesman we had spoken to assured us that Linux fully supported the machine. sarcasm Yeah... Right... /sarcasm :) Now it seems I'm stuck

RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Matt_Domsch
The aacraid driver was submitted to Alan Cox, but rejected because it has too many "NTism's" in it, which are being addressed. Please see the Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe" beta kernel source RPM for the source code, or contact me privately. Sincerely, Matt Domsch Dell Enterprise Systems Group Linux

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Alan Cox
AFAIK, Dell wrote these drivers themselfs and they are unwilling to release The drivers for the percraid have adaptec copyrights and have been made available finally but were too ugly at the moment to merge (and had some obvious potentially nasty bugs like using down() on a spinlock The

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Bruce A. Locke wrote: Hello... The organization I do some work for purchased a rackmount server from Dell with the intent of running some webconferencing software under Linux. The salesman we had spoken to assured us that Linux fully supported the machine.

RE: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The aacraid driver was submitted to Alan Cox, but rejected because it has too many "NTism's" in it, which are being addressed. Please see the Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe" beta kernel source RPM for the source code, or contact me privately. In my

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Alan Cox
So does this mean that the driver currently in redhat's pinstripe beta should be avoided on an production SMP system? Is sticking with 2.2.14 perferable right now? Anyone know how far along the adaptec guys are? Im quite sure the same bug is in there binary only drivers too. I thinl it just

Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

2000-09-17 Thread Bruce A. Locke
So does this mean that the driver currently in redhat's pinstripe beta should be avoided on an production SMP system? Is sticking with 2.2.14 perferable right now? Anyone know how far along the adaptec guys are? Thanks for your time... On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: AFAIK, Dell