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 ...
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