Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver the extra repository

2009-11-04 Thread Francois Laagel
Thanks, Marion. That was a very useful reply. I was unaware of that fact. The trick, as always when dealing with SCSI, being to find the appropriate cable ;) Francois -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver the extra repository

2009-11-03 Thread Francois Laagel
Hi, Hi Milan, Francois Laagel píše v čt 29. 10. 2009 v 12:04 -0700: Can we expect the adp driver (present in SXCE build 125) to be included into the OpenSolaris extra repository at some point in the future? That driver supports a bunch of old Adaptec HBAs--the AHA 2940 (aka AIC7861)

Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver the extra repository

2009-11-03 Thread Marion Hakanson
f.laa...@ieee.org said: Yes, they do officially support Solaris starting with the 29160 (sol7 and 8!). Of course, that's an LVD adapter. If you so unlucky as to have a single-ended SCSI backup unit as I do, and still want to use OpenSolaris to drive it, your only recourse is to bet on SXCE in

Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver the extra repository

2009-10-30 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, Francois Laagel píše v čt 29. 10. 2009 v 12:04 -0700: Can we expect the adp driver (present in SXCE build 125) to be included into the OpenSolaris extra repository at some point in the future? That driver supports a bunch of old Adaptec HBAs--the AHA 2940 (aka AIC7861) being one of

Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver the extra repository

2009-10-30 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Some light on Adaptec ;-) Note: In the past years Adaptec has lied to us repeatedly about forthcoming documentation which would have allowed us to stabilize, improve and manage RAID support for these (rather buggy) raid controllers. As a result, we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use.

[osol-discuss] adp driver the extra repository

2009-10-29 Thread Francois Laagel
Can we expect the adp driver (present in SXCE build 125) to be included into the OpenSolaris extra repository at some point in the future? That driver supports a bunch of old Adaptec HBAs--the AHA 2940 (aka AIC7861) being one of them--and seems to be distributable only under binary form, which