I am running an Adaptec 3200S in a box with Redhat 7.1 - SGI XFS 1.01,
(2.4.3-SGI_XFS_1.0.1smp). Adaptec has the 7.1 drivers up on their site
as mentioned. Since it was not one of their stock supported kernels,
I applied the patch and recompiled. They had diffs for a variety of
kernels but not for 2.4.3. The diffs for RH 7.1, 2.4.2 worked with
a minor change for the diffs in the Makefile in drivers/scsi.
I now have a 500 GB XFS filesystem on line for our cluster.
% df -kl
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 8782720 1486432 7296288 17% /
/dev/sda1 35328 12908 22420 37% /boot
/dev/sdc1 501737024 1940 501735084 1% /u1
The place to look is http://linux.adaptec.com. The link mentioned
below will get you to the same place.
> Just wanted to chime in on this - I have a box with an Adaptec 2100s
> card as well. I have been very happy with the performance & features
> (probably because it was made by DPT...)
>
> Anyway, Linux support for this product has been non-existent, especially
> as the board was advertised as being 'Linux compatible'. Until recently,
> the DPT I20 drivers were not present on linux.adaptec.com, and the only
> drivers that worked were the ones provided by Adaptec (for RedHat 6.2).
>
> I read somewhere that the kernel team has included I20 drivers that work
> for this card in kernel 2.4.10 and up. I haven't had a chance to try
> this yet...can anyone verify? Also, if you have luck with the old DPT
> drivers, let me know. My box is due for an upgrade, RH 6.2 is getting
> pretty old. I'm tempted to move to FreeBSD (drivers are included with
> the distro), but I really would like to run XFS on this box.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 05:54 AM, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
>
> >Joost van der Locht wrote:
> >>For Redhat 7.1 is on the website of Adaptec
> >>(http://linuix.adaptec.com/linux_raid_unsupported.html) a driver disk
> >>available for Redhat 7.1
> >>Creating an own driver disk can be done like this (thanks to Richard
> >>Sharpe,
> >>sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx)
> >>www.cantech.net.au/plug/2001-06/msg00248.html
> >
> >I hope everyone notes these are DPT's old drivers, which I've used in
> >Linux over the years. Unlike Adaptec, they actually created their
> >hardware to an open standard interface (I2O) so one driver could power
> >any board, ATA, SCSI, etc... Too bad DPT has now been consumed by
> >Adaptec, which means support is going out the window.
> >
> >Adaptec themselves are still creating endless, incompatible boards with
> >splintering revisions of the same board for OEMs. Since starting to use
> >Linux in 1993 and seeing one board work and another fail with drivers,
> >as well as a number under Windows as well, I gave up. 3Ware for
> >ATA-RAID, Mylex for SCSI, Advansys/Symbios Logic for plain SCSI, and a
> >few select others (e.g., I'll "tolerate" HighPoint's "trick BIOS" ATA
> >controller chips since their Linux drivers work well) are all I'll use.
> >
> >Until Adaptec and Promise get their acts together (not likely since they
> >get so much business from their "brand name"), I won't be using their
> >products in Linux, or even Windows systems for that matter. You'd
> >figure with their size they'd actually make the best products with the
> >best Linux support? Hardly, both usually lose every benchmark I've seen
> >and Linux support for their products has always been a 3rd
> >party/community proposition, or increasingly binary only for only select
> >products.
> >
> >Just my $0.02 ...
> >
> >-- TheBS
> >
> >--
> >Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx chat:thebs413
> >Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org
> >President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
> >----------------------------------------------------------------
> >* Pentium stop, Pentium SMP go, Athlon MP go ... go very fast! *
> >
> >
>
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