Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:32:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:32:24 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:39688 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:32:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Dilemma: Replace Escalade with Adaptec 2400A or Promise Supertrak66? To: jkniiv@hushmail.com Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:33:22 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200110101408.f9AE87w91970@mailserver1.hushmail.com> from "jkniiv@hushmail.com" at Oct 10, 2001 07:08:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I know that both are based on an I2O architecture so there's some hope, at > least, even if there is very little support officially by Adaptec or Promise. > Alan himself has proclaimed that the Supertrak works for him just fine, but > I presume there are no Linux-based utilities available yet. Is there then > any way to find out if a drive has gone south and needs to be replaced -- > kernel log messages, maybe? I2O provides the basic info needed to check stuff (it uses an HTML interface bizarrely enough). The DPT/Adaptec doesn't use this so Im not sure what its monitoring setup is As to support Promise sent me the card, and answered questions on firmware funnies Adaptec wrote their own open source drivers Alan - 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/