Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:34:48 -0400 Received: from mail.nep.net ([12.23.44.24]:55556 "HELO nep.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:34:38 -0400 Message-ID: <19AB8F9FA07FB0409732402B4817D75A038B80@FILESERVER.SRF.srfarms.com> From: "Ryan C. Bonham" To: jkniiv@hushmail.com Cc: "Linux Kernel List (E-mail)" , "Deanna Bonds (E-mail)" Subject: RE: RE: Dilemma: Replace Escalade with Adaptec 2400A or Promise S uper trak66? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:36:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, > Does it run stably? Have you had any issues with drives > failing and going offline without any real reason? Any > compatibility issues with certain makes of drives (mine are > Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60, configured as 4x60GB in RAID10)? I am running IBM Deskstar.. 3X60 Raid 5.. I have had no problems with the card or drives. The Array has been up sence July. > And what about those Adaptec utilities (raidutil), are they > handling the new driver OK? Hmm Good question, i dont think i am running the Raid Utils, i set up the array and sort of forgot about it.. :) Deanna do RaidUtils work?? Hope this helps in your decission.. Ryan > > Oh, I happened to stumble on the Open Source Newsletter at > opensource.adaptec.com and was indeed hinted that the 2400A > is a full member of the Adaptec I2O clan, but it was so > vaguely put I wasn't sure really. > > Thanks for your input, > > // Jarkko > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:25:39 -0400, "Ryan C. Bonham" > wrote: > >All the Adaptec I2O RAID products use the same driver, including the > >ATA(Adaptec 2400A) based one. The ATA drives/arrays will > appear to the OS > >as a scsi > >device. The driver was in the last Linus release also (2.4.10). I am > >running the adaptec 2400A on a 2.4.6 kernel which i patch > with adaptecs > >dirvers, with no problems.. > > > >Ryan > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: jkniiv@hushmail.com [mailto:jkniiv@hushmail.com] > >> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:08 AM > >> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >> Subject: Dilemma: Replace Escalade with Adaptec 2400A or Promise > >> Supertrak66? > >> > >> > >> The Adaptec 2400A is presumably very much like the 2100S SCSI > >> model. Adaptec has released some binary only drivers and > >> utilities but none for the 2.4 kernel line. There are however > >> some beta stage drivers (dpt_i2o) available as source for the > >> SCSI models. Now, I happened to list the symbols of the > >> binary only driver for the 2400A (dpt_i2o.o) and came to the > >> conclusion that they are the very same as in the SCSI driver > >> source! Any differences ought to be small. Now, I'm wondering > >> whether anybody has already tested the driver with a 2400A? Alan? > >> > >> Yours, > >> > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/