On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Hi Seth, Benito -
>
> Seth Mos wrote:
>
> > Those drivers should be in the standard redhat kernels. They have since at
> > least version 7.0 and maybe even 6.2.
> > So I wonder, Eric have you taken these out?
>
> The only change made to these RPMs is adding XFS and kdb, and upgrading
> LVM to 1.0.1rc4. I'm not particularly inclined to start adding various
> other drivers not related to the filesystem - especially ones I can't
> test.
OK, then they are included by default.
> I'm not certain which version of aacraid is in the RPMs - the module
> happily reports the version as the date it was built - in this case,
> yesterday. ;) The patch claims to be linux-2.4.1-aacraid.patch, which
> doesn't sound terribly up to date.
There are probably some other patches lingering around that affects it.
The driver is maintained by Adaptec, but Dell is still pushing them to
release a opensource driver that is written for solaris.
> If you're having trouble with aacraid in the RH kernels, I'd file a
> report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
I suspect it will work OK. Note that on 2.4.10+ the read speed of the raid
controller is about double that of a 2.4.9 kernel. This was noted by
people on the linux-poweredge list. Scary!
Cheers
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