I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would really like to see
this driver in 2.4.2.
-Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Black [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
>
>
>
> I must say, after I saw this post, I tried out the latest
> driver for my own
> purposes.
>
> This really improved the performance of my dual PIII-866
> w/512MB Ram and
> AIC7899 scsi.
> I have a couple of cheetah drives that I am writing data that
> I get off of
> an ATM card.(about 12-14 MB/sec rate).
>
> This has significantly lowered the number of dropped packets
> on the ATM
> read.
>
> I would suggest, if at all possible, putting this in the 2.4.2 kernel.
>
> Nathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Salzenberg [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:20 PM
> To: Matthew Jacob
> Cc: Wakko Warner; Alan Cox; J . A . Magallon; linux-kernel
> Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
>
>
> According to Matthew Jacob:
> > See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
>
> Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
> STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a
> month ago).
>
> While we're discussing SCSI drivers, I'd also like to put in a good
> word for the Sym-2 Symbios/NCR drivers from Gerard Roudier:
>
> ftp://ftp.tux.org/roudier/drivers/portable/sym-2.1.x/
>
> Joe-Bob says: "Check it out."
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>I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would really like to see
>this driver in 2.4.2.
Have you tested the 2.2.18 version of the new driver? The patches
should work on most 2.2.X kernels, I just haven't gotten around to
verifying that. The more testers, the merrier! :-)
--
Justin